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TOWN     OFFICERS. 


BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 

C.  A.  DOE,  President. 

H.  C.  Blum,  G.   M.   Brice, 

L.  P.   Branstetter,  A.   Putnam. 

Town  Clerk,  ex-offieio  Assessor G.  W.  Dungan 

Treasurer F.  G.  Williams 

Marshal,  ex-offieio  Tax  Collector,  Superintendent  of  Streets, 

Poundmaster,  and  Sewer  Inspector   I.  B.  Barnes 

Town  Attorney    M.   C.   Decarli 

Recorder   Jas.   Smith. 

Health   Officer    L    Michael 


PUBLIC  LIBRARY. 

TRUSTEES. 

GERTRUDE  B.  FRANCIS,  President. 

Alice  Mills  M.   C.   Decarli. 

F.  G.  Williams  Elsie  Dickson. 

Librarian — Nellie   E.   Winslow. 


FIRE    DEPARTMENT. 

Chief F.   Cruickshanks. 

Secretary D.  M.  Smith. 

Treasurer   C.  H.  Boynton. 

Foreman  Hose  Co.   No.   1 J.  F.   Bartlett. 

Foreman  Hose  Co.  No.  2 W.  A.  Bartlett. 

Foreman  Engine  Co.  No.  1 Wl  F.  Kausen. 

Foreman  Hook  and  Ladder  Co J,  A.  Collins 


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ORDINANCE  NO.   8. 

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TO   PROVIDE  FOR  A  NIGHT   WATCHMAN. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  That  from  and  after  the  first  day  of  Novemher,  1893,  it  shall 
be  lawful  for  the  Trustees  of  said  Town  to  appoint  at  their  discretion  a  night 
watchman. 

SEC.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  such  night-watchman  to  patrol,  (that  part 
of  said  Town  of  Ferndale  as  shall  be  designated  by  the  Town  Trustees)  during  his 
continuance  in  office,  between  the  hours  of  8  o'clock  P.  M.,  and  5  o'clock  A.  M.,  each 
day,  and  such  other  duties  as  the  Board  of  Trustees  may  direct. 

SEC.  3.  Said  Watchman  shall  have  the  same  power  as  the  Marshal  of  said 
town,  to  arrest  any  person  in  said  town  for  a  violation  of  any  of  the  Town  Ordi- 
nances. 

SEC.  4.     Said  watchman  shall  receive  such  compensation  for  his  services  as 
the  Town  Trustees  may  determine.    This  Ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  full 
force  from  and  after  the  date  of  its  approval. 
Approved  Nov.  6,   1893. 

A.   PUTNAM,   President. 
G.    W.    DUNGAN,    Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  10. 

TO  PROMOTE  MORALITY,  PREVENT  DISTURBANCES  AND  PRESERVE  THE 
PUBLIC    SAFETY    AND    CONVENIENCE. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

[Section  1  Repealed.] 

SEC.  '2.  It  is  hereby  declared  to  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to 
engage  in  boxing,  fencing,  ball-playing,  or  in  any  game  of  amusement  on  any  of 
the  streets  or  thoroughfares  of  the  town  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.  3.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  appear  upon  any  public 
street,  road  or  alley,  or  in  any  public  place  or  upon  any  private  property  within  the 
Town  of  Ferndale  in  a  drunken   or   intoxicated  condition. 

SEC.   4.     It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  female  person,  between   the  hours  of 


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8  o'clock  p.  m.  and  6  o'clock  a.  m.,  to  be  in  any  public  drinking  saloon,  beer  cellar 
or  billiard  room,  or  any  room  adjacent  thereto  or  in  any  room  used  in  connection 
therewith  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  where  vinous,  malt  or  spirituous  liquors 
are  sold  or  furnished. 

SEC.  5.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  within  the 
Town  of  Ferndale  to  permit  any  minor  person  to  enter  any  saloon,  room  or  place 
within  said  town  where  vinous,  malt,  or  spiritous  liquors  are  furnished  or  sold. 

SEC.  6.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  minor  person  to  enter  any  saloon,  bar 
room,  or  any  place  where  vinous,  malt  or  spiritous  liquors  are  sold  or  furnished 
within  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.  7.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  under  the  age  of  16  years  to  be 
upon  the  streets  or  thoroughfares  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  between  the  hours  of 
8  o'clock  p.  m.  and  5  o'clock  a.  m.,  unless  accompanied  by  parent  or  guardian. 

SEC.  8.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to  congregate  upon 
any  walk,  sidewalk  or  crossing,  or  in  any  manner  obstruct  the  same  within  the 
Town  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.  9.  Every  gambler  or  person  who  has  no  visible  means  of  support  and 
every  person  who  frequents  a  house  of  ill-fame  and  every  person  who  is  intoxicated 
for  a  period  of  more  than  one  day  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale  are  hereby  de- 
clared to  be  idle,  dissolute  and  undesirable  persons  and  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

SEC.  10.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  owner  or  occupant  of  any  land,  lot  or 
block  cff  land  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  bounded  by  any  street  or  thoroughfare,  in 
front  of  which  land,  lot  or  block  of  land  there  is  a  walk  or  sidewalk,  to  obstruct  the 
same  or  permit  or  suffer  the  same  to  remain  out  of  repair. 

SEC.  11.  It  is  hereby  declared  to  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  cor- 
poration to  take  up  or  remove  any  walk,  sidewalk  or  crossing,  or  to  injure  or  de- 
stroy the  same  in  any  manner,  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  except  to  reconstruct 
or  repair  the  same,  and  such  construction  or  repair  must  not  exceed  a  period  of 
five  days,  and  during  the  continuance  of  such  construction  or  repairs,  the  occupant 
of  the  lot  or  premises  in  front  of  which  such  construction  or  repair  is  being  made, 
must  maintain  and  keep  between  the  hours  of  7  p.  m.  and  6  a.  m.  good  and  suffi- 
cient lights  at  each  end  of  the  said  walk. 

SEC.  12.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  owner,  upon  or  in  front  of  whose  land 
any  tree  grows  with  boughs  that  extend  over  any  portion  of  the  street  in  the  Town 
of  Ferndale,  to  keep  the  same  so  trimmed  that  the  limbs  or  branches  shall  not  ob- 
struct the  travel  or  passage  on  the  sidewalk. 

SEC.  13.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  to  dig 
any  trench  or  make  any  excavation  in  any  street,  road  or  alley  within  the  Town 
of  Ferndale  except  under  the  direction  or  supervision  of  the  Town  Marshal;  no 
trench  or  excavation  shall  remain  open  more  than  24  hours,  and  within  24  hours 
after  any  trench  or  excavation  is  made,  it  shall  be  filled,  and  when  filled  the  street, 
road  or  alley  shall  immediately  be  restored  to  and  maintained  in  as  good  condition 
as  it  was  before  the  excavation  was  made.  Any  person,  firm  or  corporation  dig- 
ging any  trench  or  making  any  excavation  in  any  street,  road  or  alley  in  the  Town 
of  Ferndale  shall  keep  the  same  properly  guarded  and  lighted  while  the  same  shall 
remain  open. 

SEC.  15.  It  is  hereby  declared  to  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  cor- 
poration to  drive  or  lead  any  wild,  vicious  or  unruly  animal  or  animals  upon  any 
street,  road  or  alley  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  unless  the  same  are  securely  fastened 
with  a  rope. 

SEC.      16.     Any   person   violating  any  of   the   provisions   or   sections   of   this 


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ordinance  is  hereby  declared  to  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction 
shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  or  by  imprisonment 
in  the  town  prison  for  not  -more  than  sixty  days  or  by  both  such  fine  and  impris- 
onment, at  the  discretion  of  the  court. 

SEC.  17.     This  Ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after 
the  date  of  its  approval.  • 

Passed  and  approved  Dec.  11,  1893. 

A.   PUTNAM,   President, 
G.    W.    DUNGAN,    Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  11. 

DEFINING    DUTIES   AND    FIXING    COMPENSATION      OF   TOWN    RECORDER 
AND   ATTORNEY. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  Recorder  shall  perform  the  duties  required  of  him  by 
Article  V  of  Municipal  Corporations  of  the  sixth  cless,  enacted  by  the  Legislature 
of  the  State  of  Cali'fornia,  approved  March  13,  1883,  and  of  the  amendments  thereof, 

SEC.  2.  The  Recorder  shall  receive  in  all  criminal  actions  for  violation  of 
any  ordinance  like  fees  as  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  criminal  actions;  in  all  other 
criminal  and  civil  actions  he  shall  receive  like  fees  for  like  services  as  are  now 
allowed  Justices  of  the  Peace.  He  shall  attend  and  file  a  written  report  at  every 
regular  meeting. 

[Sections  3  and  4  repealed.] 

SEC.  5.     This  Ordinance  takes  effect  from  and  after  the  date  of  its  approval. 

Passed  and  approved  Feb.  5,   1894. 

A.   PUTNAM,    President. 
d.    W.    DUNGAN,    Clerk. 


ORDINANCE   NO.    15. 

ELECTION    OF    TOWN    OFFICERS. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  There  shall  be  held  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  on  the  second 
Monday  in  April,  1894,  and  on  the  second  Monday  in  April  in  each  even  numbered 
year  thereafter,  a  general  municipal  election  for  the  election  of  Town  Officers  con- 
sisting of  Town  Trustees,  Clerk,  Treasurer,  and  Marshal:  The  Town  Clerk  shall 
be  ex-officio  Town  Assessor,  the  Town  Marshal  shall  be  ex-officio  Tax  Collector. 
The  Clerk,  Treasurer  and  Marshal  shall  each  hold  office  for  a  period  of  two  years 
after  the  Monday  next  succeeding  the  day  of  their  election  and  until  their  succes- 
sors  are  elected  and  qualified.  Members  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  hold  office 
for  the  period  of  four  years  from  and  after  the  Monday  next  succeeding  their  elec- 
tion and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and  have  qualified,  "provided  that  the 
first  Board  of  Trustees  elected  under  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  at  their 
first  meeting  so  classify  themselves  by  lot  that  three  of  their  number  shall  go  out 


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of  office  at  the  expiration  of  two  years,  and  two  of  their  number  at  the  expiration 
of  four  years." 

SEC  2.  It  is  hereby  made  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  to  cause  a 
notice  to  be  published  in  a  weekly  newspaper  printed  in  said  Town  of  Ferndale  for 
at  least  two  weeks  prior  to  said  day  of  election,  announcing  the  time  of  holding 
thereof,  the  officers  to  be  chosen  thereat,  and  the  place  of  holding  the  election,  to- 
gether with  such  other  matters  as  they  may  deem  of  sufficint  interest  to  communi- 
cate. 

SEC.  3.  Prior  to  an  election  in  any  year,  the  Board  of  Trustees  must  ap- 
point an  election  board,  to  consist  of  two  inspectors,  two  judges,  two  clerks  and  two 
ballot  clerks,  which  Board  shall  have  charge  of  said  election,  and  shall  conduct  the 
same  as  near  as  practicable  in  accordance  with  the  general  election  laws  of  the 
State  of  California. 

SEC.  4.  The  compensation  of  each  member,  of  said  election  board  shall  be 
the  sum  of  two  dollars  per  'day. 

SEC.  5.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  the  date  of  its  ap- 
proval. 

A.   PUTNAM,   President, 
G.    W.    DUNGAN,    Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  17. 

ESTABLISHING  A   BOARD   OF  HEALTH   AND   DEFINING  THE  DUTIES   AND 
POWERS   OF  THE   SAME. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  A  Board  of  Health  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  is  hereby  estab- 
lished to  consist  of  five  persons,  one  at  least  of  whom  shall  be  a  practicing  physi- 
cian and  a  graduate  of  some  reputable  school  of  medicine,  and  one,  if  practicable, 
a  civil  engineer.  The  members  of  the  Board  of  Health  shall  be  appointed  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  and  shall  hold  office  at  the  pleasure  of 
the  appointing  power.  They  shall  receive  a  salary  of  one  dollar  per  annum.  The 
president  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  be  ex- officio  president  of  the  Board  of 
Health.  The  clerk  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  be  ex-officio  clerk  of  the  Board 
of  Health. 

SEC.  2.  The  Board  of  Health  shall  hold  monthly  meetings  at  such  time  and 
place  as  they  may  designate  and  may  be  convened  by  the  president  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  at  any  time. 

SEC.  3.  The  Board  of  Health  may  appoint,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees,  a  health  officer,  who  must  be  a  practicing  physician,  a  graduate 
of  some  medical  college  ahd  a  resident  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  and  who  shall  be 
the  executive  officer  of  the  Board  of  Health  and  who  shall  hold  office  at  the  pleas- 
ure of  said  Board  of  Health  and  said  Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.  4.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Health:  First,  to  supervise 
all  matters  pertaining  to  the  sanitary  condition  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  and  make 
such  rules  and  regulations  relative  thereto  as  are  necessary  and  proper.  Second, 
to  report  to  the  State  Board  of  Health  at  Sacramento  at  such  times  as  it  may  re- 
quire; "a"  The  sanitary  condition  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale;  "b"  the  number  of 
deaths,  with  the  cause  of  each  within  the  town  as  near  as  can  be  ascertained;   "c" 


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the  presence  of  epidemic  or  other  dangerous  or  infectious  diseases  and  such  other 
matters  within  their  knowledge  and  jurisdiction  as  the  State  Board  may  require. 
Third,  to  recommend  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  whenever  they  shall  deem  necessary, 
such  sanitary  measures  and  such  ordinances  as  they  may  consider  advisable,  and 
co-operate  with   them   in  carrying  the   same  into   effect. 

SEC.  5.  The  Board  of  Health  shall  have  power  to  adopt  and  must  recom- 
mend such  measures  as  will,  in  their  judgment,  best  promote  the  health  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  and  prevent  the  spread  of  disease;  to  enter 
into  and  examine  in  the  daytime  any  buildings,  lots  and  places  in  the  town:  to 
forbid  and  prevent  communication  with  infected  families,  houses  and  places  when- 
ever they  deem  the  same  necessary  to  protect  the  public  health;  to  generally  su- 
pervise public  buildings  so  far  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  promotion  of  health. 

SEC.  6.  The  following  diseases  are  hereby  declared  to  be  dangerous,  infec- 
tious and  contagious,  to-wit:  Cholera,  small-pox,  diphtheria  and  scarlatina,  and 
the  health  of  the  residents  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  requires  any  and  all  persons 
having  either  of  the  aforesaid  diseases  to  remain  isolated  and  separate  in  their 
dwellings  or  places  of  abode. 

It  is  hereby  made  unlawful  for  any  person  having  either  cholera,  small-pox, 
diphtheria  or  scarlatina  to  appear  in  any  public  place  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  or 
leave  his  or  her  place  of  abode  until  he  or  she  obtains  a  permit  from  the  Board  of 
Health  or  Health  Officer. 

SEC.  7.  Whenever  a  case  of  small-pox,  cholera,  diphtheria  or  scarlatina 
exists  in  any  house  or  tenement  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Health  Officer  to  require  all  such  persons  to'  be  kept  closely  confined  in  their  re- 
spective dwellings  or  places  of  abode  and  shall  immediately  cause  to  be  erected 
in  a  conspicuous  place  in  front  of  such  dwelling  or  place  of  abode,  a  Yellow  flag 
or  other  suitable  notice  setting  forth  the  fact,  and  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  the  oc- 
cupant thereof  or  any  other  person  to  remove  such  flag  or  notice  so  long  as  in  the 
opinion  of  the  Health  Officer  or  Board  of  Health  the  same  ought  to  remain  on  the 
said  premises. 

SEC.  8.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons,  within  the  Town  of 
Ferndale  except  the  physician,  clergyman  or  undertaker,  of  those  having  a  written 
permit  from  the  Board  of  Health  or  Health  Officer,  to  enter  or  depart  from  any 
house,  where  small-pox,  cholera,  diphtheria  or  scarlatina  exists  or  while  the  corpse 
of  any  person  who  shall  have  died  of  such  disease  remains  within  the  house  nor 
until  such  building  and  its  contents  shall  have  been  disinfected,  fumigated  or  oth- 
erwise disposed  of  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Board  of  Health. 

SEC.  9.  It  is  unlawful  for  any  non-resident  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  who 
resides  in  or  visits  a  house  or  other  place  where  diphtheria,  small-pox,  cholera  or 
scarlatina  exists,  to  appear  or  be  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  without  a  written  permit 
from  the  Board  of  Health  or  Health  Officer. 

SEC.  10.  It  is  hereby  made  unlawful  for  any  physician,  clergyman,  under- 
taker or  other  person  visiting  a  house  or  place  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale  where 
small-pox,  cholera,  diphtheria  or  scarlatina  exists  without  immediately  after  leaving 
such   place  to  change  and  disinfect  their  clothing. 

SEC.  11.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  physician  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale 
to  report  to  the  Health  Officer,  or  to  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Health,  every  pa- 
tient of  his  who  has  cholera,  small-pox,  diphtheria  or  scarlatina,  as  soon  as  he  shall 
become  satisfied  of  the  nature  of  the  disease,  and  to  report  to  the  same  officer,  or 
member  of  the  Board  of  Health,  every  death  from  such  diseases  immediately  there- 
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SEC.  12.  Whenever  a  person  is  sick  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale  the 
symptoms  of  which  indicate  the  disease  to  be  either  small-pox,  cholera,  diphtheria 
or  scarlatina,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  attending  physician  to  immediately  notify 
the  Board  of  Health  or  Health  Officer  who  shall  cause  such  person  to  be  kept  iso- 
lated and  closely  confined  in  their  respective  dwelling  or  place  of  abode  until  the 
nature  and  character  of  their  disease  shall  become  definitely  determined.  Any 
person  neglecting  or  refusing  to  comply  with  the  order  of  the  Board  of  Health  or 
Health  Officer  in  relation  to   such  isolation   shall  be  guilty   of  a  misdemeanor. 

SEC.  13.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  householder  in  this  town  to  report, 
in  writing,  to  the  Health  Officer,  or  to  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Health  imme- 
diately, the  names  of  every  person  boarding  at  his  or  her  house  whom  he  or  she 
shall  have  reason  to  believe  to  be  sick  with  cholera,  diphtheria  small-pox  or  scar- 
latina, and  any  deaths  occurring  at  his  or  her  house  from  such  diseases. 

SEC.  14.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Health  or  the  Health  Officer, 
of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  when  deemed  necessary  to  secure  the  pub'ic  health,  to 
enter  and  inspect  the  premises,  house  or  other  place  of  any  person  within  said 
town,  to  ascertain  any  nuisance  that  may  there  exist,  and  when  satisfied  of  the 
existence  of  such  nuisance,  to  serve  a  written  notice  upon  the  owner,  occupant  or 
agent  of  such  premises,  house  or  other  place,  to  abate  or  remove  such  suisance 
within  a  reasonable  time  to  be  stated  in  said  notice,  and  upon  the  neglect  or  re- 
fusal of  any  owner,  occupant  or  agent  of  such  premises  or  other  place,  within  the 
Town  of  Ferndale  to  comply  with  such  notice,  such  person,  firm  or  corporation  shall 
be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor. 

SEC.  15.  Whenever  a  nuisance  detrimental  to  the  public  health  shall  exist 
on  the  property  of  any  non-resident  or  upon  any  property  within  the  Town  of 
Ferndale,  the  owner  or  owners  of  which  cannot  be  found  by  the  Board  of  Health 
or  the  Health  Officer  after  diligent  search,  or  on  the  property  of  any  owner  or  own- 
ers upon  whom  due  notice  may  have  been  served  and  who  shall  refuse  or  neglect 
to  abate  the  same  within  'the  time  stated  in  the  notice,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Board  of  Health  to  cause  the  said  nuisance  to  be  at  once  removed  or  abated  and 
to  draw  upon  the  general  fund  for  such  sums  as  may  be  required  for  its  removal 
or  abatement  not  to  exceed  Fifty  Dollars.  Said  sum  or  sums  so  paid  shall  become 
a  lien  on  the  property  from  which  said  nuisance  has  been  removed  or  abated  in 
pursuance  of  this  section  and  may  be  recovered  by  an  action  against  such  prop- 
erty, and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  town  attorney  to  foreclose  all  such  liens  in  the 
proper  court  in  the  name  of  and  for  the  benefit  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  and  when 
the  property  is  sold  enough  of  the  proceeds  shall  be  paid  into  the  Town  treasury 
to  satisfy  the  lien  and  costs  and  the  overplus,  if  any  there  be,  shall  be  paid  to  the 
owner  of  the  property  if  he  be  known,  and  if  not  then  into  the  court  for  his  use 
when  ascertained.  The  Board  of  Health  is  hereby  vested  with  power  to  act  upon, 
define,  determine  and  adjudge  what  shall  constitute  a  nuisance  detrimental  to  the 
public  health  in  accordance  with  this  section,  in  said  town,  and  to  require  the  same 
to  be  abated  in  a  summary  manner. 

SEC.  16.  Physicians  and  midwives  must  on  or  before  the  4th  day  of  each 
month  make  a  return  to  the  Health  Officer  of  all  births,  deaths,  and  the  number  of 
still-born  children  occurring  in  their  practice  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale  during 
the  preceding  month;  in  the  absence  of  such  attendants  the  parents  must  make 
such  report  within  30  days  after  the  birth  of  the  child.  Such  returns  must  be  made 
in  accordance  with  rules  adopted,  and  upon  blanks  furnished  by  the  Board  of 
Health. 

SEC.  17.     No  person  shall  deposit  or  inter  in  any  cemetery  in  the  Town  of 


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Ferndale  any  human  body  without  first  having  obtained  and  filed  with  the  Health 
Officer  a  certificate  signed  by  a  physician,  midwife  or  coroner,  setting  forth  as  near 
as  possible,  name,  age,  sex,  color,  place  of  birth,  occupation,  date,  locality,  and  the 
cause  of  death  of  the  deceased  and  obtain  from  such  officer  a  permit,  and  the  Board 
of  Health  and  Health  Officer,  whenever  in  their  opinion  the  protection  of  the  public 
health  requires,  may  refuse  to  grant  such  permit  for  burial  and  may  prescribe  the 
mode  and  manner  of  all  interments  and  burials  in  said  town  nor  shall  any  human 
body  be  removed  or  disinterred  without  a  permit  from  the   Health  Officer. 

SEC.  18.  The  Health  Officer  must  keep  a  record  of  all  births,  deaths  and 
interments  occurring  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  and  file  the  same  with  the  clerk  of 
the  Board  of  Health. 

SEC.  19.  The  Sexton  of  each  cemetery  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale  must 
on  the  1st  Monday  of  each  month  return  to  the  Health  Officer  the  names  of  all 
persons  interred  or  deposited  in  their  respective  cemeteries  for  the  preceding  month. 

SEC.  20.  Any  person  who  rfuses  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  ordi- 
nance and  every  person  violating  any  section  or  provision  of  this  ordinance  is  guilty 
of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  $50  and  not  exceeding  $100,  or  imprisonment  in  the  Town  Prison  not  ex- 
ceeding 50  days  or  by  both   such   fine   and   imprisonment. 

SEC.  21.    This  ordinance  takes  effect  from  and  after  the  date  of  its  approval. 

Passed  and  approved   March   5,   1894. 

A.    PUTNAM.   President. 
G.    W.    DUNGAN,    Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  20. 

TO   PROVIDE   AGAINST    THE    SPREAD   OF  AND   TO    RESTRICT    AS    FAR   AS 
POSSIBLE  CONTAGIOUS  DISEASES,  TO- WIT:  DIPHTHERIA,  CHOLERA, 
SMALL-POX  AND  SCARLATINA,  WITHIN  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE. 
SECTION  1.     The  Board  of  Health  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  may  at  its  dis- 
cretion and  it  is  hereby  empowered,  whenever  it  deems  the  public  health  requires, 
to   prohibit   the   meeting  of  Lodges,   Societies,   Churches,    Schools   and   other   public 
assemblages  within   the   Town   of  Ferndale  during  such   period   or   time  as   it  may 
deem  necessary. 

SEC.  2.  Every  School,  Society,  Lodge,  Church  or  assemblage  of  people  con- 
vened or  held  in  contravention  of  the  order  of  the  Board  of  Health  or  Health  Offi- 
cer of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  is  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  punishable  by  a  fine 
of  not  less  than  $50  nor  more  than  $100  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  Town  Jail  for 
a  period  of  not  more  than  50  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

SEC.  3.  It  is  unlawful  for  any  person,  Lodge,  Society,  Church  organization, 
School  or  assembly  of  people  to  meet  or  hold  any  meeting  within  the  Town  of 
Ferndale  without  first  having  obtained  written  permission  from  the  Board  of  Health 
or  Health  Officer  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale.  Every  person,  Lodge,  Society,  Church 
organization,  School  or  assembly  of  people  convening  or  assembling  in  contraven- 
tion of  this  section  is  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  punishable  by  a  fine  of  not 
less  than  $50  nor  more  than  $100  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  Town  Jail  for  not  more 
than  50  days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

SEC.  4.     This  ordinance  shall  remain  in  force  and  be  enforced  only  for  such 


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time  and  times  as  the  Board  of  Health  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  shall  deem  neces- 
sary for  the  protection  of  the  public  health  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.   5.     This   ordinance   shall   take   effect   from   and   after   the   date   of  its 
passage  and  approval. 

Passed  and  approved  March  12,  1894. 

A.    PUTNAM,   President. 
G.    W.    DUNGAN,    Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  26. 
TO   PROVIDE   FOR   THE    CONSTRUCTION   AND   CARE    OF    SIDEWALKS. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  All  sidewalks  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  Town  of 
Ferndale  must  be  constructed  and  laid  down  in  conformity  with  the  following  speci- 
fications: First:  Wooden  sidewalks  shall  be  made  entirely  of  merchantable  lumber. 
The  planks  shall  be  at  least  two  inches  in  thickness  securely  spiked  with  at  least 
1^0-penny  nails  or  spikes  to  stringers  or  sills  not  less  than  3x6  in  size.  The  planks 
shall  be  laid  so  as  to  form  an  even  sufrface  and  at  right  angles  with  the  street,  hav- 
ing a  rise  from  the  curb  of  one-fifth  of  an  inch  to  the  foot  and  shall  correspond 
with  the  official  grade  of  the  street  at  each  point  and  shall  have  besides  the  curb- 
ing at  least  three  supporting  stringers  or  sills  if  on  an  eight-foot  side  walk,  and  at 
least  four  supporting  sills  or  stringers  besides  the  curbing  if  on  a  ten-foot  sidewalk. 
Second:  All  wooden  curbs  of  sidewalks  shall  be  constructed  of  merchantable  red 
wood  planks  not  less  than  four  inches  in  thickness,  fourteen  inches  in  width,  and 
not  less  than  six  feet  long,  unless  necessary  in  making  street  corner  curves.  Third: 
The  corners  of  all  intersection  of  streets  must  be  rounded  to  conform  to  the  cir- 
cumference of  a  circle  having  a  radius  of  eight  feet;  the  corners  at  all  intersection 
of  streets  and  alleys  must  be  rounded  to  conform  to  the  circumference  of  a  circle 
having  a  radius  of  four  feet.  Fourth:  The  sidewalks  on  Main  Street  between 
Ocean  Avenue  and  Shaw  Avenue  shall  be  ten  feet  in  width,  on  all  other  streets  of 
fifty  feet  or  over  in  width,  eight  feet;  on  all  streets  less  than  fifty  fee  in  width,  six 
feet.  Fifth:  Every  sidewalk  must  have  a  curb  which  shall  conform  to  the  official 
grade  of  the  street  of  which  said  sidewalk  shall  form  a  part. 

SEC.  2.  Every  person  who  owns  real  property  fronting  on  any  street  or 
thoroughfare,  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  and  who  has  now  a  sidewalk  laid  down  in 
front  of,  or  along  said  property,  must  relay  such  sidewalk  adjoining  said  property 
to  conform  to  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  within  30  "days  after  its  passage. 

SEC.  3.  All  persons  owning  real  property  on  any  street  or  thoroughfare  ad- 
jacent to  where  the  same  shall  hereafter  be  graded  are  hereby  directed  and  re- 
quired to  build  sidewalks  opposite  to  or  in  front  of  their  said  property,  within  30 
days  after  having  been  notified  in  writing  by  the  street  superintendent  that  said 
street  or  portion  thereof  has  been  graded  and  accepted  by  the  proper  authorities. 

SEC.  4.  Whenever  any  sidewalk  shall  get  out  of  repair,  become  inconvenient, 
unsafe  or  dangerous  to  walk  on,  the  owner  or  owners  of  the  lot  adjacent  thereto 
shall  at  once  repair  or  rebuild  such  sidewalk  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of 
this  ordinance  and  it  shall  also  be  the  duty  of  such  owner  or  owners  to  keep  driven 
down  even  with  the  upper  surface  of  such  sidewalk  all  nails  and  spikes  used  in  the 
construction  thereof,  and  in  case  of  his  neglect  or  refusal  to  perform  the  duties  re- 


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quired  of  him  in.  this  section  the  street  commissioner  is  hereby  authorized  and  em- 
powered to  make  any  needed  repairs  in  such  sidewalks  and  the  necessary  expense 
thereof  shall  be  a  charge  against  such  owner  or  owners  and  shall  be  a  lien  on  said 
property  and  may  be  collected  as  other  taxes  upon  real  property  or  by  an  action 
in  the  name  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  against  such  owners. 

SEC.  5.'  Should  any  of  the  said  owners  of  real  property  neglect  or  refuse  to 
relay  the  sidewalks  in  front  of  or  along  his,  her  or  their  property  as  required  by 
Section  2  of  this  ordinance  or  to  build  sidewalks  as  required  by  and  within  the  time 
specified  by  Section  3  of  this  ordinance,  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  street  superin- 
tendent to  forthwith  relay,  widen  or  build  such  sidewalks,  and  the  cost  thereof,  with 
interest  thereon,  shall  be  a  lien  upon  the  real  property  in  front  of  and  along  which 
said  sidewalk  was  relaid  or  built,  to  be  collected  as  other  taxes  upon  real  property 
are  collected  and  shall  also  be  a  personal  charge  against  the  owner  or  owners  of 
such  property,  to  be  recovered  with  costs  in  a  suit  in  the  name  of  the  Town  of 
Ferndale  against  such  owner  or  owners. 

SEC.  6.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  the 
6th  day  of  July,  1894. 

Passed  and  approved  July  2,   1894. 

H.  H.  MOT/LER,   President. 
S.  W.  SCOTTON,  Clerk  pro  tern. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  27. 
ORDINANCES. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  That  all  ordinances  of  said  Town  offered  for  passage  and  adop- 
tion, shall  be  first  read  in  a  meeting  of  the  Board  and  filed  with  the  clerk  and  laid 
over  to  a  subsequent  meeting,  not  within  five  days  thereafter. 

SEC.  2.  All  ordinances  shall  be  passed  and  adopted  at  a  regular  meeting 
of  the  Board,  or  at  an  adjourned  meeting  thereof. 

SEC.  3.  All  ordinances  shall  be  signed  by  the  President  of  the  Board,  and 
attested  by  the  clerk. 

SEC.  4.  Every  ordinance  shall  be  published  once,  unless  otherwise  specially 
provided  by  statute,   in  a  weekly  newspaper   published   in   said  town. 

SEC.  5.  The  Town  Clerk  shall  keep  a  book  marked  "ordinances"  into  which 
he  shall  copy  all  town  ordinances  with  his  certificate  annexed  to  each  copy,  stating 
that  the  foregoing  ordinance  is  a  true  and  correct  copy  of  an  ordinance  of  the  town, 
and  giving  the  number  and  title  of  said  ordinance  and  stating  that  the  same  has 
been  published  according  to  law. 

This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  date  of  publication. 

Passed  and  approved  Nov.   19,   1894. 
Attest:       L.  H.  MINER,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  31 

FOR  THE  PROTECTION   OF  STREETS  AND   SIDEWALKS. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.    It  shall  be  the  duty  of  every  person  owning  or  occupying  any 


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lot  or  block  of  land  In  the  Town  of  Ferndale  which  shall  be  bounded  on  any  side 
thereof  by  any  legally  established  sidewalk,  street,  lane  or  alley  or  other  public 
thoroughfare,  to  keep  such  street,  sidewalk,  lane  or  alley  free  from  all  rubbish,  filth, 
garbage  and  obstructions  of  every  kind,  as  far  as  the  middle  of  such  street  or  alley, 
and  as  far  as  the  edge  of  such  sidewalk  nearest  to  the  street,  and  as  far  in  length 
as  the  corresponding  dimensions  of  such  lot  or  block. 

SEC.  2.  Any  such  owner  or  occupant  who  shall  place  or  cause  to  be  placed, 
or  suffer  or  permit  to  be  placed,  or  permit  to  accumulate  on  any  street,  sidewalk, 
lane  or  alley  so  adjoining  his  premises,  any  rubbish,  filth  or  garbage  or  obstruction 
of  any  kind  or  description,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  maintaining  a  public  nuisance. 

SEC.  3.  This  ordinance  shall  not  be  construed  so  as  to  prevent  any  person 
from  using  one-half  of  the  street  adjoining  his  premises  for  a  reasonable  time,  when 
such  use  may  be  necessary  for  the  purpose  of  collecting  and  using  material  for 
erecting  or  repairing  buildings;  nor  to  prevent  any  person  from  depositing  goods, 
wares  and  merchandise  upon  any  sidewalk,  lane  or  alley  in  said  town  for  the  pur- 
pose of  immediately  conveying  them  across  the  same;  nor  to  prevent  tying  saddle 
horses  or  mules,  and  horses  or  mules  attached  to  vehicles,  at  convenient  places  along 
the  streets  for  a  reasonable  and  proper  time;  provided  that  no  goods,  wares  or  mer- 
chandise shall  remain  on  any  sidewalk  longer  than  is  necessary  for  the  purpose  of 
unloading  and  conveying  them  across  the  same,  and  after  they  have  been  so  con- 
veyed they  must  not  be  replaced  thereon  except  for  the  purpose  of  prompt  delivery 
thereof.  , 

SEC.  4.  Any  person  who  shall  throw,  deposit  or  place  any  rubbish,  filth, 
garbage  or  obstruction  of  any  kind,  except  as  herein  above  provided,  in  or  upon  any 
public  street,  lane,  sidewalk  or  alley,  shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  committing  a  public 
nuisance. 

•SEC.  5.  Any  person  who  shall  commit  or  maintain  a  public  nuisance,  as  the 
same  are  defined  in  this  ordinance,  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction  thereof,  upon  the  complaint  of  the  Town 
Marshal  or  other  person,  shall  be  fined  in  a  sum  not  less  than  ten  nor  more  than 
one  hundred  dollars. 

SEC.  6.  All  ordinances  or  parts  of  ordinances  in  conflict  herewith  are  here- 
by repealed. 

SEC.  7.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  from  its  date  of  publication. 

Passed  and  approved  this  17th  day  of  December,  1894. 

H.  H.  MODLER,   President. 
J.  A.  SHAW,  Clerk  pro  tern. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  32. 

VIOLATION  OF  ORDINANCES. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  A  judgment  that  any  person  shall  pay  a  fine,  or  fine  and  im- 
prisonment, for  a  violation  of  an  ordinance  may  also  direct  that  he  be  imprisoned 
until  the  fine  be  satisfied,  specifying  the  extent  of  imprisonment,  which  must  not 
exceed  one  day  for  every  dollar  of  the  fine. 

SEC.  2.  The  judgment  may  also  direct  that  said  person  shall  be  caused  to 
labor  upon   the   public   streets  or  other   public   property  or   works   of  the   Town   of 


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Ferndale,  at  the  rate  of  one  day  of  labor  for  every  two  days  of  the  judgment  of 
imprisonment. 

SEC.  3.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  date  of  publication. 

Passed  and  approved  this  17th  day  of  December,  1894. 

H.  H.  MOLLER,  President. 
J.  A.  SHAW,  Clerk  pro  tern. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  33. 

TO  PROVIDE  FOR  A  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  STREETS,  AND  TO  REPEAL 
ORDINANCE  NO.  25  AND  SEC.  2  OF  ORDINANCE  NO.  6. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  may  at  any 
time  after  the  passage  of  this  ordinance  appoint  a  superintendent  of  streets  at  a 
compensation   to   be   hereafter   determined   by   said   Board. 

SEC.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  superintendent  of  streets,  under  the  di- 
rection and  control  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  to  take  charge  of  the  roads,  streets, 
alleys,  lanes  and  sidewalks  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  and  to  keep  the  same  in 
repair  and  free  from  obstructions,  and  to  supervise  the  construction  of  sidewalks 
and  grading  of  streets,  and  construction  of  sewers  within  the  Tov/n  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.  3.  Before  entering  upon  his  duties,  the  superintendent  of  streets  shall 
give  a  bond  for  $1000,  conditioned  for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duty,  payable 
to  the  Town  of  Ferndale.  Such  bond  shall  be  executed  by  two  good  and  sufficient 
sureties,  to  be  approved  by  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.  4.  Ordinance  No.  25,  and  Section  2  of  Ordinance  No.  6  are  hereby  re- 
pealed. 

SEC.  5.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  date  of  pub- 
lication. 

H.  H.  MOLDER,  President. 

L.  H.  MINER,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  35. 
TO  PRESERVE  THE  PUBLIC  SAFETY  AND  CONVENIENCE. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  lead,  ride  or  drive  any 
cow,  ox,  horse,  mare,  mule,  jack  or  jenny,  whether  attached  to  any  vehicle  or  not, 
on  or  along  any  sidewalk  or  pavement  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  except  for  the 
purpose  of  crossing  driveways  on  sidewalks  or  pavements. 

SEC.  2.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  ride  any  bicycle,  tricycle  or 
velocipede  on  or  along  any  sidewalk  or  pavement  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.  3.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  acts  of  this  ordinance 
shall  be  fined  in  any  sum  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars. 

SEC.  4.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  date 
of  publication. 

Passed  and  approved  this   4th  day  of  February,   1895. 

H.  H.  MOLLER,  President. 
L.  H.  MINER  Clerk. 


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ORDINANCE  NO.  36. 

CHANGING  NAME  OF  STREET. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.     The  name  of  Main  street,  as  appears  on  map  of  Arlynda  Ad- 
dition of  Ferndale  is  hereby  changed  to  Kenyon  street. 

SEC.  2.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  date  of  publication. 
Passed  and  approved  this  20th  day  of  May,  1895. 

H.  H.  MOLLER,  President. 
J.  A.  SHAW,  Clerk  pro  tern. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  38. 
ENTITLED  AN  ORDINANCE  ADOPTING  SEWER  MAPS  OF  FERNDALE. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  l.That  the  Map  of  Ferndale  Sewer  System,  drawn  by  J.  A.  Shaw, 

be  accepted  and  adopted  as  the  sewer  map  of  Ferndale. 
Passed  and  approved  July  1,   1895. 

H.  H.  MOLLER,  President. 

L.  H.  MINER,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  39. 

ACCEPTING   STREETS. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  All  streets  and  alleys  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the 
Town  of  Ferndale  which  have  been  dedicated  by  the  owners  thereof  for  the  use  of 
the  public  are  hereby  accepted  and  declared  to  be  public  'streets  of  the  Town  of 
Ferndale 

This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  publication. 
Passed  and  approved  this  5th  day  of  August,  1895. 

H.  H.  MOLLER  President. 
L.  H.  MINER,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  40. 

USE  OF  COUNTY   JAIL. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  That  any  person  or  persons  sentenced  to  imprisonment  for 
violations  of  any  of  the  ordinances  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  may  be  imprisoned  in 
the  county  jail  at  the  City  of  Eureka,  at  the  discretion  of  the  Town  Recorder;  in 
which  case  the  expense  of  such  imprisonment  shall  be  a  charge  in  favor  of  the 
County  and  against  the  Town. 


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SEC.   2.     This  ordinance  shall  'take  effect  from  and  after  its   passage  and 
publication. 

Passed  and  approved  this  12th  day  of  August,  1895. 

H.  H.  MOLLER,  President. 
L.  H.  MINER,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  44. 

AN  ORDINANCE  GRANTING  TO  HUMBOLDT  TELEPHONE  CO.,  SUCCES- 
SORS AND  ASSIGNS,  THE  RIGHT  TO  PLACE,  ERECT  AND  MAINTAIN 
POLES,  WIRES  AND  OTHER  CONDUCTORS  FOR  THE  TRANSMISSION 
OF  ELECTRICITY  FOR  TELEPHONE  AND  TELEGRAPH  PURPOSES 
IN  AND  UPON  THE  STREETS,  ALLEYS  AND  PUBLIC  HIGHWAYS  OF 
THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE,  STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA,  AND  TO  EXER- 
CISE THE  PRIVILEGE  OF  OPERATING  TELEPHONES  WITHIN  SAID 
TOWN. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  Town  of  Ferndale,  State  of  California,  hereby  grants  to 
Humboldt  Telephone  Company,  successors  and  assigns,  the  right  and  privilege  to 
place,  lay,  erect,  maintain  and  operate  in  the  streets,  alleys  and  public  highways 
within  said  town,  poles,  wires  and  other  conductors  for  the  transmission  of  elec- 
tricity for  telephone  and  telegraph  purposes. 

SEC.  2.  Such  wires  or  conductors  shall  be  stretched  upon  poles  or  other 
fixtures  above  ground  in  a  workmanlike  and  proper  manner;  said  poles  shall  be 
erected  at  the  edge  of  the  sidewalks  in  said  town  in  a  good  and  substantial  man- 
ner and  shall  be  painted.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  'town  shall  have  a  right 
to  cause  said  grantee  to  move  the  location  of  any  pole  whenever  the  public  con- 
venience shall  require  the  location  of  the  same  elsewhere;  the  expense  of  such  re- 
moval to  be  paid  by  said  grantee. 

SEC.  3.  The  said  grantee  or  assigns  may  make  all  necessary  excavations  in 
any  of  said  streets,  alleys,  or  public  highways  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  and 
maintaining  the  poles  or  other  supports  for  said  wires  or  conductors,  or  repairing 
the  same,  and  said  work  shall  be  done  in  compliance  with  the  necessary  rules, 
regulations,  ordinances  or  orders  which  may  during  the  continuance  of  this  fran- 
chise be  adopted  from  time  to  time  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  town,  and  the 
same  shall  be  done  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  said  Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.  4.  Nothing  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  construed  as  in  anywise  to  pre- 
vent the  proper  authorities  of  said  Town  of  Ferndale,  State  of  California,  from  sew- 
ering, grading,  paving,  planking,  repairing  or  altering  any  of  said  streets  or  thor- 
oughfares herein  mentioned. 

SEC.  5.  In  consideration  of  the  rights  herein  granted,  the  said  Town  of 
Ferndale,  State  of  California,  shall  have  the  right  to  suspend  and  maintain  upon 
the  poles  placed  by  said  grantee,  its  successors  or  assigns,  in  the  streets  or  thor- 
oughfares aforesaid,  any  and  all  wires  which  said  town  may  require  for  fire  alarm 
or  police  telegraph  service,  free  of  charge  to  said  town. 

SEC.  6.  The  rights,  privileges  and  franchises  herein  granted  shall  continue 
and  be  in  force  for  the  period  of  twenty-five  (25)  years  from  and  after  the  date 
of  the  passage  of  this  ordinance. 


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SEC.  7.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  arid  after  its 
passage  and  publication. 

Passed  and  approved  December  2,  1895. 

H.  H.  MOLI.ER,  President. 
L.  H.  MINER,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  45. 

AN  ORDINANCE  GRANTING  TO  THE  SUNSET  TELEPHONE  &  TELEGRAPH 
CO.,  SUCCESSORS  AND  ASSIGNS,  THE  RIGHT  TO  PLACE,  ERECT  AND 
MAINTAIN  POLES,  WIRES  AND  OTHER  CONDUCTORS  FOR  THE 
TRANSMISSION  OF  ELECTRICITY  FOR  TELEPHONE  AND  TELE- 
GRAPH PURPOSES,  IN  AND  UPON  THE  STREETS,  ALLEYS  AND  PUB- 
LIC HIGHWAYS  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE,  STATE  OF  CALIFOR- 
NIA, AND  TO  EXERCISE  THE  PRIVILEGE  OF  OPERATING  TELE- 
PHONES WITHIN  THE  SAID  TOWN. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  Town  of  Ferndale,  State  of  California,  hereby  grants  to 
the  Sunset  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Co.,  successors  and  assigns,  the  right  and 
privilege  to  place,  lay,  erect,  maintain  and  operate  in  the  streets,  alleys  and  public 
highways  within  said  town,  poles,  wires  and  other  conductors  for  the  transmission 
of  electricity  for  telephone  and  telegraph  purposes. 

SEC.  2.  Such  wires  or  other  conductors  shall  be  stretched  upon  poles  or 
other  fixtures  above  ground  in  a  workmanlike  and  proper  manner;  said  poles  shall 
be  erected  at  the  edge  of  the  sidewalks  in  said  town,  in  a  good  and  substantial  man- 
ner, and  shall  be  painted. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  town  shall  have  the  right  to  cause  said 
grantee  to  move  the  location  of  any  pole  whenever  the  public  convenience  shall 
require  the  location  of  the  same  elsewhere,  the  expense  of  such  removal  to  be  paid 
by  said  grantee. 

SEC.  3.  The  said  grantee  or  assigns  may  make  all  necessary  excavations 
in  any  of  said  streets,  alleys  or  public  highways  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  and 
maintaining  the  poles  or  other  supports  for  said  wires  or  conductors  or  repairing 
the  same,  and  said  work  shall  be  done  in  compliance  with  the  necessary  rules,  regu- 
lations, ordinances  or  orders  which  may  during  the  continuance  of  this  franchise 
be  adopted  from  time  to  time  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  town,  and  the  same 
shall  be  done  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  said  Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.  4.  Nothing  in  this  ordinance  shall  be  construed  as  in  anywise  to  pre- 
vent the  proper  authorities  of  said  Town  of  Ferndale,  State  of  California,  from 
sewering,  grading,  paving,  planking,  repairing  or  altering  any  of  said  streets  or 
thoroughfares  herein  mentioned. 

SEC.  5.  In  consideration  of  the  rights  herein  granted,  the  said  Town  of 
Ferndale,  State  of  California,  shall  have  the  right  to  suspend  and  maintain  upon 
the  poles  placed  by  said  grantee,  its  successors  or  assigns,  in  the  streets  and  thor- 
oughfares aforesaid,  any  and  all  wires  which  said  town  may  require,  for  fire  alarm 
and  police  telegraph  services,  free  of  charge  to  said  town. 

SEC.  6.  The  rights,  privileges  and  franchises  herein  granted  shall  continue 
and  be  in  force  for  the  period  of  twenty-five  (25)  years  from  and  after  the  date 
of  the  passage  of  this  ordinance. 


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SEC.  7.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its 
passage. 

H.  H.  MOLLER,  President. 
L.  H.  MINER,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  46. 
APPOINTING  THE  TOWN   MARSHAL  TO  THE  OFFICES  OF  SUPERINTEND- 
ENT OF  STREETS  AND  POUNDMASTER. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  It  shall  be  lawful  for  the  Town  Marshal,  In  addition  to  his 
duties  prescribed  by  law  and  the  ordinances  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  to  also  dis- 
charge the  duties  of  Superintendent  of  Streets  and  Poundmaster  of  the  Town  of 
Ferndale. 

SEC.  2.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  may,  in  their 
discretion,  appoint  the  Town  Marshal  to  the  office  of  Superintendent  of  Streets  or 
to  the  office  of  Poundmaster,  or  to  both  such  offices. 

This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  approval  and  publication. 
Passed  and  approved  this  1st  day  of  June,   1896. 

A.   BERDING,  President. 
L.  H.  MINER,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  47. 
TO    PROHIBIT    ANIMALS    FROM    RUNNING    AT    LARGE. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to  allow  or 
permit  any  horse,  mule,  ass,  goat,  cow,  bull,  calf,  sheep  or  swine  'to  run  at  large 
upon  any  public  street,  way  or  highway  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  Town  of 
Ferndale. 

SEC.  2.  Any  person  who  violates  any  provision  of  section  one  shall  be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by 
a  fine  not  exceeding  twenty  dollars. 

SEC.  3.     All  ordinances  in  conflict  herewith  are  hereby  repealed. 

This  ordinance  shall  be  in  force  and  take  effect  from  the  7th  day  of  April, 
1896. 

Passed  and  approved  this  6th  day  of  April,  1896. 

H.  H.  MOLLER  President. 
L.  H.  MINER,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  48. 
ESTABLISHING  A  PUBLIC  POUND  AND  PRESCRIBING  POWERS  AND  DUTIES 

OF   THE    POUNDMASTER. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  A  public  pound  is  hereby  authorized  and  established,  which 
pound  shall  be  located  at  a  place  to  be  designated  from  time  to  time  by  resolution 
of  this  Board. 


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SEC.  2.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Poundmaster  to  lock  up,  seize  and  im- 
pound all  horses,  mules,  ass«s,  goats,  cows,  bulls,  calves,  sheep,  swine,  or  any  such 
animals  found  running  at  large,  or  estrayed,  or  staked,  or  in  any  manner  grazing, 
or  being  grazed  or  fed  upon  any  public  street,  way  or  highway  in  said  Town. 

SEC.  3.  Any  animal  mentioned  in  section  two  of  this  ordinance  found  tres- 
passing upon  any  private  property  in  said  town,  or  running  at  large  upon  any  pub- 
lic street,  way  or  highway,  may  be  taken  up  by  any  person  and  committed  to  the 
custody  of  the  Poundmaster,  who  shall  hold  the  same  subject  to  reasonable  demands 
for  actual  damage  done,  in  addition  to  fees  prescribed  herein,  by  said  animal,  if 
trespassing  upon  private  property,  and  for  the  fees  prescribed  herein  if  found  run- 
ning at  large  upon  the  streets,  etc. 

SEC.  4.  The  Poundmaster  shall  take  up  and  securely  keep  all  animals  men- 
tioned in  section  two  of  this  ordinance  and  shall  receive  and  securely  keep  all 
animals  taken  up  and  committed  to  his  custody  in  accordance  with  section  three 
of  this  ordinance.  He  shall  notify  the  owner  or  owners,  or  persons  entitled  to  the 
control  of  such  animals,  of  the  impounding  of  the  same,  by  posting  iiotices  thereof 
in  three  public  places  within  the  town  for  at  least  two  days,  and  he  shall  provide 
subsistence  for  all  animals  impounded  while  in  his  custody. 

SEC.  5.  The  charges  upon  animals  impounded  shall  be  two  dollars  per  head 
for  each  animal,  and  if  such  animal  was  taken  up  by  any  other  person  than  the 
Poundmaster,  such  person  shall  be  entitled  to  one  dollar,  and  the  Poundmaster  shall 
be  entitled  to  one  dollar,  and  the  Poundmaster  shall  be  entitled  to  50  cents  per  day 
for  keeping  the  same  while  in  his  custody. 

SEC.  6.  The  owner  or  owners  or  persons  entitled  to  the  control  of  any  ani- 
mal impounded  may  at  any  time  before  the  sale  thereof  redeem  the  same  by  pay- 
ing to  the  Poundmaster  all  proper  charges  and  costs  thereon,  made  by  virtue  of  any 
of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  and  upon  the  payment  of  said  charges  and  costs 
the  Poundmaster  shall  deliver  to  such  person  the  animal  so  redeemed. 

SEC.  7.  If  at  the  expiration  of  said  two  days  from  the  time  of  posting  the 
notices  required  by  section  four  of  this  ordinance,  no  owner  can  be  found,  or  the 
owner  or  person  entitled  to  the  control  of  the  animal  impounded,  fails  or  neglects 
to  redeem  the  same,  the  Poundmaster  shall  sell  such  animal  at  public  auction  after 
giving  notice  thereof  in  three  public  places  for  two  days  before  such  sale,  giving 
a  description  of  each  animal  and  the  time  and  place  of  sale.  From  the  proceeds  of 
the  sale  the  Poundmaster  shall  deduct  charges  and  costs,  provided  for  in  section 
five  of  this  ordinance,  and  in  addition  thereto  the  sum  of  one  dollar  for  posting  no- 
tices and  one  dollar  in  all  sales,  and  shall  pay  the  balance  into  the  town  treasury  for 
the  use  and  benefit  of  the  owner  or  persons  entitled  to  the  control  of  the  animal 
sold,  if  claimed  within  six  months  thereafter,  which  sums,  if  not  so  claimed,  shall 
be  paid  into  the  general  fund. 

SEC.  8.  The  Poundmaster  shall  keep  a  correct  record  of  all  animals  taken 
into  his  custody,  and  shall  pay  into  the  town  treasury  all  moneys  received  by  him 
as  charges  and  costs,  after  paying  therefrom  for  the  keeping  of  the  animals  im- 
pounded while  in  his  custody. 

SEC.   9.     Ordinance  Number  Four  is   hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  10.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after 
the  7th  day  of  April,  1896. 

Passed  and  approved  this  6th  day  of  April,   1896. 

H.  H.  MOLLER,  President. 
L.  H.  MINER,  Clerk. 


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ORDINANCE  NO.  49 
BONDS  OF  TOWN  OFFICERS. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  That  the  Town  officers  hereinafter  named  before  entering  up- 
on the  duties  of  their  respective  offices  shall  each  give  a  bond  to  said  town,  con- 
ditioned for  the  faithful  performance  of  his  duties  as  required  by  law,  including  in 
the  bond  the  duties  of  all  offices  of  which  he  is  or  may  be  made  ex-officio  incum- 
bent, with  at  least  two  sureties;   the  form  of  said  bond  to  be  joint  and  several. 

SEC.  2.  The  penalty  of  such  bonds  shall  be  as  follows:  The  Town  Clerk 
in  the  penal  sum  of  one  thousand  dollars;  the  Town  Treasurer  in  the  penal  sum 
of  six  thousand  dollars;  the  Town  Marshal  in  the  penal  sum  of  three  thousand 
dollars. 

SEC.  3.  Ordinance  No.  Two  and  Ordinance  No.  Twenty-One  are  hereby  re- 
pealed. 

This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  publi- 
cation. 

Passed  and  approved  this  20th  day  of  April,  1896. 

H.  H.  MODLER,  President 
L.   H.   MINER,   Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  51. 
ACCEPTING  AND  NAMING  STREETS. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  That  the  following  described  streets  and  parcel  of  land  now 
opened  into  streets  are  hereby  accepted  and  declared  to  be  public  streets  of  the 
Town  of  Ferndale,  viz: — that  part  of  Church  street,  beginning  at  the  terminus  of 
Shaw  avenue  and  running  in  a  northeasterly  direction  to  where  Rose  avenue  inter- 
sects Church  street;  also,  the  whole  of  Rose  avenue,  which  said  above-mentioned 
streets  are  shown  on  map  filed  in  the  County  Recorder's  office  by  Isabella  Shaw; 
also,  the  following  described  parcel  of  land,  beginning  at  a  point  25  feet  south  of  the 
southwest  corner  of  the  southeast  quarter  of  the  southeast  quarter  of  section  2, 
township  2,  north  of  range  2,  west,  H.  M.  (at  the  terminus  of  Rose  avenue),  thence 
north  50  feet,  thence  east  and  parallel  with  the  section  line  1358  48-100  feet  to  sec- 
tion line  between  sections  1  and  2,  thence  south  5  feet,  thence  east  and  parallel 
with  section  line  672.2-10  feet  to  the  east  boundary  of  the  incorporate  limits  of  the 
Town  of  Ferndale,  thence  south  20  feet  to  the  section  line  between  sections  1  and  12, 
thence  west  along  the  section  line  672  2-10  feet  to  the  corner  of  sections  1,  11  and  12, 
thence  south  25  feet,  thence  west  and  parallel  with  the  section  line  1358  48-100  feet 
to  the  point  of  beginning;  also  begin  at  a  point  situate  25  feet  north  of  the  south- 
west corner  of  the  southeast  quarter  of  the  southeast  quarter  of  aforesaid  section 
2,  thence  north  to  the  north  boundary  of  Rose  avenue  in  Shaw's  Division  to  the 
Town  of  Ferndale,  thence  southeasterly  along  the  north  boundary  line  of  Rose  av- 
enue, if  extended  southeasterly,  to  the  north  boundary  of  the  above-described  parcel 
of  land,  thence  west  to  the  point  of  beginning,  within  the  incorporate  limits  of  the 
Town  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.  2.  That  the  name  of  the  street  in  the  last  above  described  parcels  of 
land  shall  be  Rose  avenue. 


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SEC.  3.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its 
passage  and  approval  and  publication. 

Passed  and  approved  this  13th  day  of  July,  1896. 

A.  BERDING,  President. 
L.   H.  MINER,   Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  52. 
ESTABLISHING  A  FIRE  DEPARTMENT  FOR  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  A  Fire  Department  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  is  hereby  created 
which  shall  be  known  as  the  Ferndale  Fire  Department  and  which  shall  consist  of 
a  Chief,  one  Assistant  Chief,  a  Secretary,  a  Treasurer,  and  all  such  regularly  or- 
ganized fire  companies  now  or  hereafter  organized  in  the  said  town,  as  shall  be 
admitted  to  said  Fire  Department  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  town,  on  rec- 
ommendation of  the  Board  of  Control  of  the  Fire  Department,  and  which  shall  com- 
ply with  the  provisions  and  requirements  of  this  Ordinance,  and  other  Ordinances 
which  may  hereafter  be  passed  by  this  Board;  provided,  that  there  shall  hot  be 
more  than  four  companies  in  the  town.  Not  more  than  sixty-five  members  shall 
be  allowed  to  any  engine  company,  or  hook-and-ladder  company  and  not  more 
than  twenty-five  members  to  any  hose  company. 

SEC.  2.  The  Chief,  Assistant  Chief,  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  shall  be 
elected  on  the  first  Thursday  in  February  of  each  year  by  the  members  of  the  Fire 
Department,  and  confirmed  by  the  Board  of  Trustees*  and  shall  hold  office  only  at 
the  pleasure  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.  3.  The  Fire  Department  shall  be  governed  by  a  "Board  of  Control." 
Said  Board  shall  consist  of  the  duly  elected  and  qualified  Chief  and  Assistant  Chief, 
together  with  the  duly  elected  and  qualified  Foremen  of  the  several  fire  companies, 
elected  by  the  respective  companies  comprised  in  the  department.  The  Board  of 
Control  shall  have  exclusive  charge  and  control  of  all  matters  appertaining  to  the 
government  of  said  department,  and  shall  have  power  to  adopt  such  rules  and  regu- 
lations for  the  government  of  the  same  as  shall  not  conflict  with  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  4.  The  Secretary  shall  issue  certificates  of  active  membership  and  of 
exemption  to  all  members  of  the  Fire  Department  who  may  be  entitled  to  receive 
the  same,  and  shall  perform  such  other  duties  as  may  be  provided  in  this  Ordinance 
or  in  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  Department. 

SEC.  5.  The  Treasurer  shall  take  charge  of  and  receipt  for  all  moneys  of 
the  Fire  Department  and  Board  of  Control,  and  shall  perform  such  other  duties 
as  may  be  provided  by  the  rules  and  regulations  of  the  Department. 

SEC.  6.  The  Chief,  Assistant  Chief,  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  on"  receiving 
their  certificates  of  election  or  appointment,  shall  take  and  subscribe  to  the  con- 
stitutional oath  of  office,  before  an  officer  authorized  to  administer  oaths,  which 
shall  be  endorsed  upon  or  attached  to  his  certificate  and  filed  with  the  Town  Clerk 
in  his  office.  The  Chief  and  Assistant  Chief  herein  provided  for  must  have  been 
active  members  of  the  Fire  Department  of  said  town  for  at  least  one  year  previous 
to  such  election. 

SEC.  7.  The  Board  of  Control  of  said  Fire  Department  may,  for  good  cause 
shown  and  entered  on  its  minutes,  and  after  fair  and  just  hearing  and  trial  had, 
remove  any  officer  appointed,  or  any  member  of  this  department.    At  least  five  days' 


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notice  of  the  charges  preferred  and  the  time  fixed  for  trial  shall  be  given  through 
the  Secretary  of  the  Board  to  the  accused  officer  or  member  before  the  trial  shall 
be  had 

SEC.  8.  No  liability  shall  be  incurred  against  the  town  on  account  of  the 
Fire  Department,  except  such  as  shall  be  ordered  or  approved  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees. 

SEC.  9.  Every  fire  company  in  the  town  shall,  within  thirty  days  after  the 
taking  effect  of  this  ordinance,  make  and  deliver  to  the  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Control  a  certificate  showing:  First,  the  date  of  its  organization;  second,  the  names 
of  its  officers,  and  when  and  for  how  long  a  time  they  are  elected  or  appointed; 
third,  the  time  of  its  regular  meetings  and  regular  elections;  fourth,  the  names  of 
all  its  active  members  in  good  standing.  Every  fire  company  hereafter  organized 
shall,  before  it  is  admitted  to  the  department,  file  with  said  Secretary  a  like  cer- 
tificate. A  like  certificate  shall  be  made  and  filed  annually  with  said  Secretary,  not 
less  than  thirty  days  before  the  annual  election.  Such  certificate  shall  be  signed 
by  the  Foreman  and  Secretary  of  each  company. 

SEC.  10.  The  Chief,  if  present,  shall  have  control  and  command  of  all  op- 
erations of  the  department  at  fires.  If  the  Chief  is  not  present  at  any  fire,  the  As- 
sistant Chief  shall  have  control  and  command;  and  if  neither  the  Chief  nor  the 
Assistant  Chief  be  present,  then  the  first  Foreman  who  causes  water  to  be  thrown 
on  the  fire  shall  have  such  charge  and  command.  All  the  members  of  the  Fire 
Department  sholl  obey  the  orders  of  the  officer  in  charge  at  any  fire,  and  it  shall 
be  the  duty  of  all  companies  in  the  department,  with  their  apparatus,  and  of  all 
the  members  of  the  companies  to  turn  out  at  any  fire  unless  otherwise  directed. 

SEC.  11.  The  Chief  shall  have  charge,  subject  to  the  orders  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees,  of  all  property  of  the  Department. 

SEC.  12.  The  Chief  shall  report  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  annually,  on  the 
first  Monday  in  March,  the  number,  location  and  condition  of  all  cisterns,  hydrants 
and  fire  apparatus,  and  the  state  of  the  fire  company  houses,  and  of  all  property 
of  the  town  in  keeping  of  said  department.  Also,  all  accidents  by  fire  which  have 
taken  place,  with  the  causes  thereof,  and  a  description  of  the  property  destroyed 
or  injured,  with  the  names  of  the  owners  of  the  same  and  the  amount  of  loss  and 
insurance;  also,  such  other  information  and  such  recommendations  as  he  may  deem 
proper.     He  shall,  furthermore,  inquire  into  the  cause  of  all  fires. 

SEC.  13.  The  Chief  shall  be  notified  at  once  of  any  necessary  repairs  to 
houses,  apparatus,  etc.,  and  all  communications  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  in  refer- 
ence to  such  matters  shall  pass  through  his  hands,  for  approval  or  disapproval, 
prior  to  coming  before  this  Board. 

SEC.  14.  All  fire  companies  and  all  members  thereof  shall  be  subject  to  the 
rules  and  regulations  in  this  ordinance  contained,  or  which  may  hereafter  be  es- 
tablished by  said  Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.  15.  No  person  shall  be  a  member  of  said  Fire  Department,  or  of  any 
company  of  said  department,  who  is  not  at  least  eighteen  years  of  age. 

SEC.  16.  None  of  the  fire  apparatus  of  said  department  shall  be  taken  out 
of  the  town  without  the  consent  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  except  in  case  of  fire, 
and  then  only  by  order  of  the  officer  in  charge. 

SEC.  17.  Within  twenty  days  after  the  passage  of  this  ordinance  the  Chief, 
Assistant  Chief  and  the  Foremen  of  the  various  fire  companies  of  this  town  shall 
meet  at  the  Town  Hall  and  proceed  with  the  organization  of  said  Board  of  Control, 
and  elect  a  Secretary  and  a  Treasurer. 

SEC.  18.    Any  person  aggrieved  at  any  act  or  determination  of  any  company 


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belonging  to  said  department  may  appeal  therefrom  to  the  Board  of  Control  by- 
filing  a  statement  of  the  grounds  of  appeal  with  the  Secretary  of  said  Board  and 
serving  a  copy  thereof  on  the  Secretary  of  the  company  appealed  from;  whereupon 
it  shall  be  the  duty  of  said  Board  to  appoint  a  time  for  hearing  and  to  hear  and 
finally  determine  said  appeal. 

SEC.  19.  Any  person  interested  may  contest  the  election  of  any  officer  of  said 
department  by  filing  a  statement  in  writing,  setting  forth  the  grounds  of  contest, 
with  the  Clerk  of  said  town,  and  serving  a  copy  thereof  upon  the  person  whose 
election  is  contested,  within  thirty  days  after  the  election  contested;  whereupon 
the  Board  of  Trustees  will,  upon  notice,  hear  and  determine  the  matter. 

SEC.  20.  All  fire  companies  organized  and  now  existing  in  this  town  are 
incorporated  and  admitted  in  the  department  hereby  established,  under  their  pres- 
ent management  and  officers,  without  further  formality. 

SEC.  21.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  from  and  after  its  passage  and 
publication. 

Passed  and  approved  this  15th  day  of  March,  1897. 

A.  BERDING,  President. 
L   H.   MINER,   Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  53. 
EXTENDING  SIDEWALK  LIMIT,  ETC. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  That  the  sidewalk  limits  on  Main  street  are  hereby  extended 
to  the  residence  of  Charles  Rackliffe. 

SEC.  2.  That  a  wooden  sidewalk,  six  feet  in  width,  in  conformity  with  Or- 
dinance No.  26  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  be  constructed  on  Main  street,  from  a 
point  in  front  of  L  M.  Smith's  residence  to  a  point  in  front  of  Charles  Rackliffe's 
residence. 

SEC.  3.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its 
passage,  and  publication. 

Passed  and  approved  this  15th  day  of  March,  1897. 

A.  BERDING,  President. 
L.   H.   MINER,   Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  54. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  Every  demand  against  the  town  must  be  made  out  on  blanks 
furnished  by  the  town  for  the  purpose,  giving  all  items  of  the  claim,  duly  verified 
by  the  affidavit  of  the  person  making  the  demand  or  by  some  person  in  his  behalf, 
as  to  its  correctness  and  that  the  amount  is  justly  due.  Every  claim  and  demand 
against  the  town  shall,  before  being  heard  or  considered  by  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
first  be  audited  by  a  committee  of  two  members  of  the  Board,  appointed  by  the 
President  of  the  Board,  to  whom  shall  be  referred  all  claims  against  the  town.  Said 
committee  shall  recommend  the  approval  or  rejection  of  the  claims  presented.     Said 


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committee  shall  be  known  as  the  Auditing  and  Finance  Committee.  All  votes  al- 
lowing any  demand  for  money,  or  for  the  payment  of  money,  shall  be  taken  by  ayes 
and  noes,  which  shall  be  entered  in  the  minutes  of  the  Board. 

SEC.  2.     Ordinance  No.   29   is  hereby  repealed. 

This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its  passage 
and  publication. 

Passed  and  approved  April  5,  1897. 

A.  BERDING,  President. 
L.   H.   MINER,   Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  56. 

(As  amended  by  Ordinances  Nos.  58  and  92.) 

REGULATING   MUNICIPAL  LICENSES. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  in  the 
Town  of  Ferndale  to  engage  in  or  carry  on  any  business,  trade,  calling,  occupation 
or  profession  hereinafter  specified  without  first  procuring  a  license  from  said  Town 
so  to  do,  and  paying  the  license  tax  hereby  now  imposed  on  such  business,  trade, 
calling,  occupation  or  profession. 

SEC.  2.  License  tax  shall  be  paid  to  and  collected  by  the  Town  Marshal. 
He  shall  sign  all  licenses  issued,  and  keep  a  record  showing  the  numbers  of  the 
same,  to  whom  issued,  the  kind  of  business  for  which  they  are  issued,  the  amount 
of  license  paid,  date  of  license,  the  date  of  issuing,  and  the  date  of  expiration  there- 
of. 

No  license  shall  be  issued  by  the  Marshal  other  than  those  received  by  him 
from  the  Town  Clerk. 

The  Town  Clerk  shall  number  and  keep  an  account  of  the  licenses  counter- 
signed by  him,  and  showing  the  numbers,  the  dates  thereof,  to  whom  issued,  for 
what,  the  time  of  expiration,  and  the  amount  of  license.  After  countersigning  the 
licenses  he  shall  deliver  the  same  to  the  Marshal  and  charge  him  with  them. 

At  the  end  of  each  license  term  the  Marshal  shall  return  to  the  Town  Clerk 
all  licenses  so  delivered  to  him  which  have  not  been  used,  and  the  Clerk  shall  credit 
him  with  them  and  cancel  the  same. 

SEC.  3.  Licenses  issued  pursuant  to  this  ordinance  shall  be  paid  for  in  ad- 
vance. They  shall  be  dated  on  the  day  of  issuance  by  the  Clerk,  and  shall  expire 
on  the  last  day  of  the  license  term,  unless  otherwise  herein  specified. 

Three  months  shall  constitute  a  license  term,  and  licenses  shall  be  issued 
quarterly  or  every  three'  months,  unless  otherwise  herein  specified,  commencing 
July  1,   1897. 

SEC.  4.  No  licenses  granted  or  issued  under  any  of  the  provisions  of  this 
ordinance  shall  be  in  any  manner  assignable  or  transferable,  or  authorize  any  per- 
son other  than  is  herein  mentioned  or  named  to  do  business  without  permission 
from  the  Board  of  Trustees  endorsed  thereon  by  the  Town  Clerk,  who  shall  record 
such  change  or  transfer  in  the  proper  place  upon  the  record  of  the  license. 

SEC.  5.  Every  person  having  a  license  under  the  provisions  of  this  ordi- 
nance shall  conspicuously  exhibit  the  same  at  all  times  while  in  force  in  his  place 


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of  business  and  produce  the  same  when  applying  for  a  renewal  or  when  requested 
so  to  do  by  the  Marshal  or  any  other  police  officer,  provided  that  peddlers  and  others 
shall  be  deemed  not  to  have  obtained  a  license,  as  he  may  by  this  ordinance  be 
required  to  obtain,  unless  upon  demand  of  the  Town  Marshal,  or  other  proper  per- 
son, he  produce  the  same  for  inspection. 

SEC.  6.  Conviction  and  punishment  of  any  person  for  transacting  any 
business  without  a  license  shall  not  excuse  or  exempt  such  person  from  the  pay- 
ment of  any  license  due  or  unpaid  at  the  time  of  such  conviction. 

SEC.  7.  Gratuitous  licenses  may  be  issued  by  the  Town  Clerk  and  Town 
Marshal  when  ordered  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  in  the  same  manner  as  other 
licenses  are  issued  by  them,  subject  to  the  conditions  of  this  section,  and  as  follows: 

First:  To  producers  to  sell  such  products  as  are  raised  and  cultivated  by 
them. 

Second:  To  persons  who,  by  the  infirmities  of  age,  loss  of  limb,  or  other  dis- 
abling causes,  are  incapacitated  from  earning  a  living  by  physical  labor,  to  sell 
goods  at  retail. 

Third:  To  any  person  who,  upon  proper  showing,  is  found  by  this  Board 
to  merit  exemption  from  'the  provisions  of  any  section  hereof. 

All  applications  for  gratuitous  licenses  shall  be  in  writing,  and  must  state 
the  facts,  relied  upon  by  applicant,  signed  by  him. 

The  action  of  said  Board  shall  be  endorsed  on  the  back  of  the  license  so 
issued,  and  signed  by  the  Clerk  of  said  Board.  The  Town  Clerk  and  Town  Marshal 
shall  enter  such  endorsement  in  the  license  books  kept  by  them.  No  license  shall 
be  in  force  until  said  entry  is  made. 

All  licenses  granted  by  the  Board  of  Trustees,  under  this  section,  shall  ex- 
pire at  the  end  of  the  term  for  which  they  were  issued,  provided  that  the  said 
Board  may  at  any  time  revoke  'the  same;  and  such  revocation  must  be  entered  on 
the  license  books  of  the  record  of  the  Town  Clerk  and  Town  Marshal,  upon  due 
notice  hereof. 

No  gratuitous  licenses  are  assignable. 

SEC.  8.     The  license  tax  shall  be  according  to  the  following  schedule: 

GENERAL   BUSINESS. 

For  every  person,  firm  or  corporation  carrying  on  the  business  of  buying  or 
selling  goods,  wares  or  merchandise,  at  a  fixed  place  of  business  in  said  Town,  shall 
pay  a  license  tax  as  follows: 

Those  whose  aggregate  sales  amount  to  $2500  or  more  per  month  shall  con- 
stitute the  first  class  and  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $10  per  quarter. 

Those  whose  aggregate  sales  amount  to  $1500  and  less  than  $2500  per  month 
shall  constitute  the  second  class  and  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $7  50  per  quarter. 

Those  whose  aggregate  sales  amount  to  $1000  and  less  than  $1500  per  month 
shall  constitute  'the  third  class  and  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $5  per  quarter. 

.     Those  whose  aggregate  sales  amount  to  $500  and  less  than  $1000  per  month 
shall  constitute  the  fourth  class  and  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $3  per  quarter. 

Those  whose  aggregate  sales  are  less  than  $500  per  month  shall  constitute 
the  fifth  class  and  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2  per  quarter. 

MEAT    MARKETS. 

SEC.  9.  For  every  person,  firm  or  corporation  having  a  fixed  place  of  busi- 
ness, who  carries  on  the  business  of  a  meat  market  in  said  town,  shall  pay  a  license 
tax  of  $3  per  quarter. 


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BLACKSMITHS,   ETC. 

SEC.  10.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  having-  a  fixed  place  of  business 
in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  engaged  in  conducting  a  blacksmith  shop,  shoe-making 
and  cobbling  shop,  carpenter  shop,  wood  work  shop,  harness  and  saddlery  repair 
shop,  paint  shop  where  painting  is  done,  tailoring,  watch  and  jewelry  repairing, 
bicycle  repairing,  hardware  and  tinware  repairing,  upholstery  repairing,  shall  pay 
therefor  a  license  tax  as  follows:  Those  whose  income  per  month  for  the  same 
shall  amount  to  $400  or  more,  shall  constitute  the  first  class  and  shall  pay  the  sum 
of  $4  per  quarter;  those  whose  income  per  month  for  the  same  shall  amount  to  $300 
and  not  exceeding  $400  shall  constitute  the  second  class  and  shall  pay  the  sum  of 
$3  per  quarter;  those  whose  income  per  month  for  the  same  shall  amount  to  $200 
and  not  exceeding  $300  shall  constitute  the  third  class  and  shall  pay  the  sum  of  $2 
per  quarter;  those  whose  income  per  month  for  the  same  shall  amount  to  any  sum 
less  than  $200  shall  constitute  the  fourth  class  and  shall  pay  the  sum  of  $1  per 
quarter;  provided  that  when  repairing  is  done  in  connection  with  the  business  for 
selling  goods,  wares,  and  merchandise  for  which  a  license  tax  is  paid  to  said  Town 
under  Section  8,  no  license  tax  shall  be  exacted  for  the  income  derived  from  such 
repairing. 

PEDDLERS  AND  CANVASSERS. 

SEC.  11.  Every  person,  firm,  association,  or  corporation,  not  having  a  fixed 
place  of  business  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  who  peddles,  or  from  place  to  place, 
within  said  Town,  offers  for  sale,  or  does  sell,  barter,  or  exchange  anything,  or 
any  goods,  wares  or  merchandise  then  in  his  possession  (except  newspapers,  peri- 
odicals, ice,  milk,  fruit,  vegetables,  or  meat)  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2  per  day, 
or  $10  per  week.  This  section  shall  also  apply  to  any  person,  not  having  a  fixed 
place  of  business  in  said  Town,  who  shall  solicit  or  take  orders  for  the  exchange, 
sale,  barter,  or  delivery  of  the  same  class  of  goods  as  above  enumerated,  not  then 
in  his  actual  possession;  and  he  shall  pay  the  same  rate  of  license  as  above.  Pro- 
vided, however,  that  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  salesmen  or  agents  for  whole- 
sale houses  or  firms  who  solicit  orders  from,  or  sell  for  resale  to,  retail  dealers  or 
to  manufacturers  for  manufacturing  purposes. 

LIVERY  STABLES,  ETC. 

SEC.  13.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  engaged  in  the  business  of  con- 
ducting a  livery  or  boarding  stable  or  livery  or  boarding  and  stage  stable  shall  pay 
a  license  tax  as  follows:  For  conducting  a  livery  or  boarding  stable  the  sum  of  $4 
per  quarter;  for  conducting  a  livery  or  boarding  and  stage  stable  the  sum  of  $6 
per  quarter. 

BANKS. 

SEC.  16.  Fof  every  company  or  corporation  carrying  on  the  banking  busi- 
ness in  said  Town,  the  sum  of  $10  per  quarter. 

TELEPHONE  COMPANY. 

SEC.  17.  Every  telephone  company  doing  a  general  telephone  business  for 
profit  within  said  Town  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $7.50  per  quarter. 

ELECTRIC  LIGHT  COMPANIES. 

SEC.   18.     For  every  person,   company  or  corporation   selling,   supplying  or 


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furnishing  electric  lights  for  gain  to  any  resident  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  shall 
pay  a  license  tax  therefor  of  $6  per  quarter. 

WATER  COMPANIES 

SEC.  19.  For  every  person,  company  or  corporation  selling,  supplying  or 
furnishing  water  for  gain  to  any  resident  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  shall  pay  a 
license  per  quarter  equal  to  1%  per  cent  of  the  gross  receipts  of  the  preceding 
quarter. 

PHYSICIANS. 

SEC.  21.  Physicians  are  divided  into  two  classes,  permanent  and  traveling. 
Permanent  physicians  are  defined  to  be  physicians  who  are  regularly  licensed,  and 
who  carry  on  their  profession  at  a  fixed  place  of  business  in  said  Town.  All  per- 
manent physicians  must  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2  per  quarter. 

Traveling  physicians  are  defined  to  be: 

1.  Regularly  licensed  physicians  who  have  not  a  fixed  place  of  carrying  on 
their  profession  in  said  Town  one  month  preceding  the  securing  of  a  license,  and 
who  advertise  by  circular,  or  in  the  public  prints,  or  by  public  outcry,  lauding  their 
skill  in  medicine  or  any  of  its  branches. 

2.  Regularly  licensed  or  other  physicians  who  take  up  a  temporary  abode 
in  said  Town  claiming  to  represent  medical  institutes,  and  who  carry  on  their  busi- 
ness by  means  of  constant  advertising. 

3.  Persons  not  regularly  licensed  who  attempt  to  carry  on  the  business  of 
prescribing  for  persons  in  ill  health,  and  endeavor  to  secure  business  by  advertis- 
ing or  puffing. 

All  traveling  physicians  as  herein  defined  must  pay  a  license  tax  of  $5  per 
day  or  $25  per  week. 

DENTISTS. 

SEC.  22.  Dentists  are  divided  into  two  classes,  permanent  and  traveling. 
Permanent  dentists  are  defined  to  be  dentists  who  have  a  fixed  place  of  business 
or  office  in  said  Town;  and  all  permanent  dentists  must  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2 
per  quarter. 

Traveling  dentists  are  defined  to  be  dentists  who  have  not  been  permanently 
located  in  said  Town  for  a  period  of  thirty  days  preceding  the  securing  of  a  li- 
cense, and  who  advertise  by  circular,  or  by  constand  advertising  in  the  public 
prints.    All  traveling  dentists  must  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2  per  day,  or  $10  per  week. 

CD7ID  ENGINEERS  AND  SURVEYORS. 

SEC.  23.  For  every  civil  engineer  and  surveyor  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
his  profession,  the  sum  of  $2  per  quarter. 

NEWSPAPERS. 

SEC.  24.  Every  person,  firm,  company  or  corporation  engaged  in  conduct- 
ing a  newspaper  or  job  printing  office  shall  pay  a  license  tax  as  follows:  For  con- 
ducting a  newspaper  whose  circulation  is  six  hundred  or  more  copies,  the  sum 
of  $3  per  quarter;  for  conducting  a  job  printing  office  or  soliciting  or  taking  orders 
for  job  printing  the  sum  of  $2  per  quarter,  provided  that  when  job  printing  or  so- 
liciting or  taking  orders  for  job  printing  is  conducted  in  connection  with  a  news- 
paper for  which  a  license  tax  is  paid  under  the  provisions  of  this  section,  no  license 
tax  shall  be  exacted  for  conducting  job  printing  or  soliciting  or  taking  orders  as 
aforesaid. 


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HOTELS. 
SEC.  26.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  who  keeps  or  conducts  a  hotel, 
restaurant,  lodging  house  or  boarding  house  in  said  Town  shall  pay  a  license  tax  as 
follows:  Hotels  $3  per  quarter,  restaurant  or  lodging  house  $1.50  per  quarter,  when 
ten  or  more  boarders  are  kept  at  a  private  house  it  shall  be  'termed  a  "boarding 
house"  and  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $1.50  per  quarter. 

PHOTOGRAPH    GALLERY. 
SEC.  27.     Every  person  or  firm  engaged  in  conducting  a  photograph  gallery, 
tent,  or  wagon,  or  taking  and  selling  photographs  or  photographic  views,  shall  pay 
a    license    tax     of  $2  per  quarter.     Traveling  photographers  shall  pay  a  license  tax 
of  $1  per  day  or  $4  per  week. 

BARBER    SHOPS. 
SEC.  28.     Every  person  or  firm  engaged  in  conducting  a  barber  shop,  shall 
pay  a  license  tax  as  follows.     For  each  barber  chair  used,  $2  per  quarter. 

LAUNDRIES. 
SEC.  29.     For  every  person,  firm  or  company  engaged  in  conducting  a  laun- 
dry, or  soliciting  for  a  laundry,  where  a  vehicle  is  used,  the  sum  of  $2  per  quarter 
for  every  vehicle  used. 

BILL    POSTING. 
SEC.  30.     Every  person  who  engages  in  the  business  of  bill-posting,  or  dis- 
tributing dodgers,   circulars,   or  advertisements   shall   pay  a  license   tax  of  $1    per 
quarter. 

RENTING    BICYCLES. 
SEC.  31.    Every  person  or  firm  renting  bicycles  for  hire  shall  pay  a  license 
tax  of  $2  per  quarter. 

AUCTION  SALES. 
SEC.  32.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  selling  dry  goods,  boots  and 
shoes,  jewelry,  silverware,  furniture  (other  than  second  hand  furniture),  cutlery, 
drugs,  hardwars,  medicine  or  stationery  at  auction  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2.50 
per  day.  Provided,  that  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  not  apply  to  sales  made 
under  order  or  judgment  of  any  court. 

EXHIBITIONS,  ETC. 
SEC.  34.  Every  proprietor,  lessee,  or  manager  of  any  theater  or  other  place 
of  amusement  shall  pay  a  license  tax  as  follows:  For  the  first  performance  of  a 
drama,  opera,  minstrel  show,  animal  show,  concert,  circus,  exhibition  of  jugglery, 
necromancy  or  rope  walking,  the  sum  of  $5;  for  the  second  performance,  the  sum 
of  $3;  for  each  subsequent  performance,  the  sum  of  $2;  provided,  that  a  quarterly 
license  may  be  granted  to  any  resident  manager  for  a  production  of  any  of  the 
above  named  performances  by  the  same  theatrical  company  for  the  sum  of  $15  per 
quarter;  and  provided  further,  that  no  license  shall  be  exacted  for  any  entertain- 
ment of  any  kind  given  by  amateur  local  performers  when  such  performance  is 
given  for  charitable,  public  or  benevolent  purposes. 

MERRRY  -  GO  -  ROUND. 
SEC.  35.     For  every  person  conducting  a  merry-go-round  the  sum  of  $2  per 
day. 

BOOK  AGENT. 
SEC.    35a.     Each  book  agent   or   solicitor,   for   the   sale  of  •  hooks,    maps,    or 


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photographic  views  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $1.50  per  week,  or  $5.00  per  month. 

SHOOTING   GALLERY. 

SEC.  35b.  Every  person  engaged  in  carrying  on  or  keeping  any  shooting 
gallery  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $5  per  month. 

ASTROLOGER, 

SEC.  35c.  Every  astrologer,  seer,  fortune  teller,  clairvoyant,  phrenologist, 
spiritualist,  spiritualistic  medium,  or  mind  or  character  reader  demanding  a  fee 
for  his  services  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2  per  day,  or  $5  per  week. 

STREET    VENDERS,    ETC. 

SEC.  35d.  Every  traveling  merchant,  hawker,  peddler,  vender,  street  fakir 
or  advertiser  who  sells  or  advertises  goods,  wares  or  merchandise  of  any  kind, 
patent  or  other  medicines  of  any  kind,  by  music,  singing,  dancing,  jegglery  tricks, 
sleight  of  hand,  buffoonery,  gymnastics  or  spectacular  plays,  shows  or  perform- 
ances, or  by  speeches,  declamation  or  oratory,  or  by  any  performance  on  the  streets 
intended  to  draw  a  crowd  about  the  person  so  selling  or  advertising  as  aforesaid, 
shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2  per  day,  or  $5  per  week. 

THROWING  RINGS,  ETC. 

SEC.  35e.  Every  person  engaged  in  disposing  of  goods,  wares  or  merchan- 
dise of  any  kind  whatsoever,  by  means  of  casting  or  throwing  rings,  or  turning  an 
arrow  or  indicator  on  a  pivot,  or  by  other  means  than  the  ordinary  method  of  barter 
and  sale,  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $3  per  day,  or  $10  per  week. 

UNDERTAKER. 

SEC.  35f.  Every  undertaker  engaged  in  undertaking  in  the  Town  of  Fern- 
dale  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2  per  quarter;  provided,  that  when  undertaking 
parlors  are  conducted  in  connection  with  a  business  on  which  a  Town  license  is 
being  paid,  no  further  license  shall  be  paid. 

BOTTLING  WORKS. 

SEC.  35h.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  engaged  in  carrying  on  a  bot- 
tling works,  and  bottling  beer  or  cider  in  said  Town,  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2.50 
per  quarter. 

WHOLESALE  LIQUOR  DEALER. 

SEC.  35i.  Every  wholesale  liquor  dealer  selling  liquor  at  wholesale  in  said 
Town  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $5  per  quarter;  provided,  that  no  license  therefor 
shall  be  issued  to  any  one  who  has  not  also  paid  for  a  retail  saloon  license  in  said 
Town. 

CREAMERY. 

SEC.  35j.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  operating  or  conducting  a 
creamery,  by  buying  milk  and  converting  it  into  cream  or  butter  within  the  limits 
of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2.50  per  quarter. 

MECHANICAL   SHOP. 

SEC.  35k.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  engaged  in  conducting  a  me- 
chanical shop  (other  than  a  blacksmith  shop),  or  manufacturing  establishment  of 
any  kind,  shall  pay  a  license  tax  as  follows: 

Where  the  number  of  men  employed  or  engaged  in  work  is  three  or  more, 


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the  amount  of  license  tax  shall  be  $2  per  quarter.    In  other  cases  the  amount  of  li- 
cense tax  shall  be  $1  per  quarter. 

TAILOR. 

SEC.  35m.  Every  tailor  or  other  person  in  the  Town  making,  or  taking  or- 
ders for,  m^n's  clothing,  except  when  said  business  is  conducted  in  connection  with 
a  clothing  store  on  which  a  license  tax  is  being  paid,  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $1 
per  quarter. 

SEC.  36.  In  all  cases  where  the,  amount  of  license  tax  to  be  paid  by  any 
person,  firm,  company  or  corporation  is  based  upon  or  regulated  by  the  amount  of 
sales  effected  or  business  transacted,  such  person,  firm,  company  or  corporation 
shall,  upon  the  request  of  the  Town  Marshal,  render  a  sworn  statement  to  the 
Town  Marshall  of  the  total  amount  of  gross  sales  made  or  business  transacted  by 
them,  respectively,  during  the  three  months  next  preceding  the  expiration  of  the 
last  license  tax,  which  statement  shall  determine  the  amount  for  which  such  licnse 
tax  shall  be  renewed. 

SEC.  37.  Every  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordi- 
nance shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall 
be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  ($100)  dollars,  or  by  imprison- 
ment in  the  Town  jail  for  a  period  not  exceeding  three  months,  or  by  both  such 
fine  and  imprisonment. 

SEC.  38.  Ordinances  Nos.  5,  9,  22,  24,  43  and  50,  and  all  ordinances  and  parts 
of  ordinances  in  conflict  herewith  are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  39.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  on  the  first  day 
of  July,  1897. 

Passed  and  approved,  June  28,  1897. 

G.  M-  BRICE, 
President   pro    tern    of   the    Board    of   Trustee. 
L.   H.   MINER,   Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  57. 

DEFINING    CERTAIN    MISDEMEANORS    AND    PROVIDING    PENALTIES    FOR 

VIOLATION. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  No  person  shall  discharge  any  musket,  rifle,  pistol,  shotgun,  or 
other  firearm  upon  any  public  highway,  lane,  street,  alley  or  sidewalk  in  the  Town 
of  Ferndale,  or  upon  any  lot  or  block  fronting  upon  Main,  Washington,  Brown,  Eu- 
gene, Francis  and  Church  streets,  and  Shaw  and  Ocean  avenues,  or  upon  the  public 
school  grounds,  without  permission  from  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.  2.  No  person  shall  fire  or  discharge,  or  cause  to  be  fired  or  discharged, 
upon  any  of  the  public  streets,  sidewalks,  highways',  lanes,  or  alleys  of  the  Town 
of  Ferndale  any  Chinese  or  other  fireworks  or  explosive  preparation  of  a  similar 
nature,  loaded  or  charged  with  gunpowder  or  any  other  explosive  material,  with- 
out permission  from  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.  3.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  not  being  a  public  officer,  or  not 
having  received  a  permit  from  the  Town  Marshal,  approved  by  the  President  of 


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the  Board  of  Trustees  to  wear  or  carry,  concealed,  any  pistol,  dirk,  brass  or  iron 
knuckles,  slungshot,  or  other  deadly  or  dangerous  weapon. 

SEC.  4.  No  person  shall  discharge  upon  any  public  street,  sidewalk,  or 
place,  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  any  gun,  by  means  of  which  any  missile  is  pro- 
jected by  a  spring,  bow,  or  compressed  air,  or  use  any  implement  whereby  stones, 
beans,  shot,  pebbles,  or  other  substances  are  projected. 

SEC.  5.  No  person  shall,  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  hurl  or  throw  any  stone 
or  other  missile  by  means  of  any  sling. 

SEC.  6.  No  person  in  said  Town  shall  so  kindle  or  light,  or  cause  to  be 
kindled  or  lighted,  any  bonfire,  upon  any  public  street  or  place,  without  permission 
from  the  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.   7.     No   person   shall   in  the  Town  of  Ferndale, 
1st.     Make  in  any  place,  or  suffer  to  be  made  upon  his  premises  or  premises 
within  his  control,  any  noise,  disorder,   or  tumult  to  the  disturbance  of  the   public 
peace,  by  yelling,  whooping,  or  singing  in  a  boisterous  or  rude  manner. 

2nd.  Utter  within  the  hearing  of  two  or  more  persons  any  baudy,  lewd,  ob- 
scene or  profane  language,  words,  or  epithets. 

3rd.  Address  to  another  or  utter  in  the  presence  of  another,  any  words, 
language,  or  expression  having  a  tendency  to  create  a  breach  of  the  peace. 

SEC.  8.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Town  Marshal  and  all  police  officers  to 
carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  and  to  cause  tne  arrest  of  all  persons 
violating  any  of  the  provisions  thereof. 

SEC.  9.  Every  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordi- 
nance shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall 
be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  One  Hundred  ($100)  Dollars,  or  by  imprison- 
ment in  the  Town  jail  for  a  period  «not  exceeding  three  months,  or  by  both  such 
fine  and  imprisonment. 

This   ordinance   shall   take   effect   immediately. 

Passed  and  approved  this  2nd  day  of  July,   1897. 
Attest:         L.  H.   MINER,  Town  Clerk. 

A.    BERDING, 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  62. 

PROVIDING  FOR  AN  ANNUAL  TAX  LEVY  IN  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE 
FOR  THE  PAYMENT  OF  PRINCIPAL  AND  INTEREST  OF  SEWER 
BONDS, ,  AND  ESTABLISHING   A   SEWER   BOND  FUND. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  Treasurer  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  is  hereby  directed  to 
establish  forthwith  a  fund  to  be  denominated  the  "Sewer  Bond  Fund."  Said 
Treasurer  must  place  to  the  credit  of  said  Fund  all  moneys  received  by  him  from 
the  sale  of  sewer  bonds,  which  may  be  sold  under  the  authority  voted  to  the  Board 
of  Trustees  by  the  electors  of  said  Town  of  Ferndale  at  the  election  held  in  said 
Town  on  July  12th,  1899,  to  issue  bonds  of  said  Town  of  Ferndale,  which  election 
was  called  by  Ordinance  No.  61.  And  said  Treasurer  shall  also  place  to  the  credit 
of  said  fund  the  taxes  to  be  hereafter  collected  as  herein  provided  for  the  purpose 
of  paying  ithe  principal  and  interest  of  said  bonds. 

SEC.  2.  It  is  ordered  that  the  bonds  of  said  Town  of  Ferndale  do  issue  to 
the  number  of  forty  of  the  denomination  of  three  hundred  dollars  each,  aggregating 


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the  sum  of  twelve  thousand  dollars.  The  said  bonds  shall  be  numbered  consecu- 
tively from  1  to  40  inclusive,  and  shall  be  dated  November  1st,  1899,  and  bear  in 
terest  at  the  rate  of  five  per  cent  per  annum,  and  both  principal  and  interest  shall 
be  payable  in  U.  S.  Gold  Coin.  The  principal  and  interest  shall  be  paid  out  of  said 
sinking  fund,   as  follows: 

Xo.   1  payable  November  1,   1900, 

No.  2  payable  November  1,   1901, 

No.   3   payable   November   1,   1902, 

No.   4   payable   November  1,   1903, 

No.  5  payable  November  1,   1904, 
Bind  so  on  each  succeeding  year  until  all  said  bonds  are  paid.     The  interest  on  said 
bonds  shall  be  paid  on  the  1st  day  of  November  of  each  year  as  said  interest  falls 
due,   commencing  November   1,    1900. 

SBC.  3. — The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  at  the  time  of 
making  the  tax  levy  for  town  purposes  each  year  on  and  af>:er  this  date,  must 
make  an  additional  tax  levy  sufficient  for  the  full  payment  of  the  interest  accruing 
on  said  bonds  and  the  redemption  thereof  as  the  same  shall  become  due. 

SEC.  4. — All  monies  collected  under  said  levy  herein  required  shall  be  placed 
to  the  credit  of  said  Sewer  Bond  Fund,  and  said  interest  of  said  bonds,  and  for  no 
other  purpose. 

SEC.  5. — The  principal  and  interest  on  said  bonds  shall  b«  paid  on  the  order 
of  the  Treasurer  drawn  on  said  Sewer  Bond  Fund,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Treasurer  to  cancel  and  file  said  bonds  and  the  interest  coupons  thereon  as  soon 
as  they  have  been  paid  and  delivered  to  him,  and  report  the  fact  of  such  surrender 
and  filing  to  the  Board  of  Trustees.  .  , 

SEC.   6. — This  ordinance  shall   take   effect  immediately. 

Adopted,  August  14th,  1889. 

A.  BERDING,  President. 
Attest:    J.   KERFOOT,  Town  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  63. 

AN  ORDINANCE  AUTHORIZING  AND  DIRECTING  PREPARATION,  EXECU- 
TION,. AND  ISSUANCE  OF  BONDS  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE 
AGGREGATING  TWELVE  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  AND  PROVIDING 
FOR  THE  COLLECTION  OF  AN  ANNUAL  TAX  SUFFICIENT  TO  PAY 
THE  INTEREST  ON  SAID  BONDS  AND  THE  SEVERAL  PRINCIPAL 
SUMS  OF  SAID  BONDS  AS  THEY  BECOME  DUE. 

Whereas,  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  did,  on  the  17th 
day  of  April,  1899,  at  a  meeting  of  said  board,  duly  and  regularly  held,  pass  an  Or- 
dinance No.  60,  wherein  and  whereby  said  board  of  trustees,  by  a  vote  of  more  than 
two-thirds  of  the  members  thereof,  did  determine  and  declare  that  the  public  inter- 
est and  necessity  of  said  town  demands  the  acquisition,  construction  and  completion 
of  a  system  of  sewers  for  the  use  of  said  town  and  its  inhabitants,  and  that  the 
cost  of  the  acquisition,  construction  and  completion  of  such  system  of  sewers  will 
be  too  great  to  be  paid  out  of  the  ordinary  annual  income  and  revenue  of  said  town, 
and 

WHEREAS,  Said  ordinance  was  thereupon  duly  approved  by  the  executive 
of   said  town   and  thereafter   duly   published   for  two   weeks   in   the    "Semi-Weekly 


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Perndale  Enterprise,"  a  newspaper  published  and  circulated  in  said  Town  of  Fern- 
dale;  and 

WHEREAS,  Said  board  of  trustees,  did,  on  the  8th  day  of  June,  1899,  at  a 
meeting  of  said  board,  which  was  the  next  regular  meeting  of  said  board  after  the 
publication  of  said  ordinance  as  aforesaid,  for  two  weeks  as  aforesaid,  and  which 
meeting  was  duly  and  regularly  held  and  at  which  meeting  all  of  the  members  of 
said  board  were  present,  pass  an  Ordinance  No.  61,  wherein  and  whereby  said  board 
of  trustees,  by  vote  of  more  than  two-thirds  of  the  members  therof,  did  call  a 
spcial  election,  to  be  held  in  said  town  on  the  12th  day  of  July,  1899,  submitting  to 
the  qualified  voters  of  said  town  the  proposition  of  incurring  an  indebtedness  by 
said  town  in  the  sum  of  twelve  thousand  dollars  for  the  purpose  of  the  acquisition, 
construction  and  completion  of  a  system  of  sewers  for  the  use  of  said  town  and  its 
inhabitants;  and 

WHEREAS,  Said  ordinance  calling  said  special  election  did  recite  the  ob- 
jects and  purposes  for  which  said  indebtedness  is  proposed  to  be  incurred,  the  esti- 
mated cost  of  said  proposed  system  of  sewers,  the  necessity  for  such  cystem  of 
sewers,  and  that  the  bonds  of  said  town  shall  issue  for  the  payment  of  the  cost  of 
such  system  of  sewers  as  in  said  ordinance  set  forth,  if  the  proposition  be  accepted, 
by  two-thirds  of  the  qualified  voters  of  said  town,  voting  at  such  special  election, 
and  did  fix  the  12th  day  of  July,  1899,  on  which  said  election  should  be  held,  and  did 
fix  the  manner  of  holding  such  election  and  the  voting  for  or  against  incurring  such 
indebtedness;  and 

WHEREAS,  Said  last  mentioned  ordinance  was  thereupon  duly  approved  by 
the  executive  of  said  town  and  was  thereafter  and  prior  to  the  publication  of  the 
notice  of  such  special  election,  hereinafter  mentioned,  duly  published  for  two  weeks 
in  the  "Semi-Weekly  Ferndale  Enterprise,"  a  newspaper  published  and  circulated 
in  said  town,  and 

WHEREAS,  Thereafter,  and  prior  to  the  12th  day  of  July,  1899,  said  board  of 
trustees  did  cause  to  be  published  for  two  weeks  in  said  "Semi-Weekly  Ferndale 
Enterprise"  a  notice  of  said  special  election,  wherein  and  whereby  was  set  forth  the 
purpose  for  which  the  indebtedness  is  to  be  incurred,  the  number  and  character  of 
the  bonds  to  be  issued,  the  rate  of  interest  to  be  paid  and  the  amount  of  tax  levy 
to  be  made  for  the  payment  thereof;  and 

WHEREAS,  Said  board  of  trustees,  before  the  question  of  incurring  said 
indebtedness  was  submitted  at  said  election,  caused  plans  and  estimates  of  the  cost 
of  said  system  of  sewers  to  be  made  by  a  competent  engineer  who  had"  had  success- 
ful experience  in  such  work;   and 

WHEREAS,  Such  election  was  duly  and  regularly  held  and  conducted  in 
said  town  on  the  12th  day  of  July,  1899,  and  the  proposition  of  incurring  said  in- 
debtedness was  duly  submitted  to  the  qualified  voters  of  said  town  at  said  election 
and  the  total  number  of  votes  cast  at  said  election  was  one  hundred  and  twenty 
(120)  and  there  were  ninety-eight  (98)  votes  cast  in  favor  of  incurring  said  indebt- 
edness and  issuing  said  bonds  and  twenty-two  (22)  votes  cast  against  incurring  said 
indebtedness  and  issuing  said  bonds,  and  all  the  returns  of  said  election  having 
been  made  and  the  reult  thereof  having  been  determined  and  declared,  and* said 
result  showing  that  more  than  two-thirds  of  all  the  voters  voting  at  said  election 
having  at  said  election  voted  in  favor  of  and  assented  to  the  incurring  of  said  in- 
debtedness and  the  issuance  of  said  bonds,  and  said  board  of  trustees  having  been 
authorized  and  empowered  to  issue  said  bonds;   and 

WHEREAS,  The  assessed  value  of  all  the  taxable  real  estate  and  personal 


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property  of  said  town  is  the  sum  of  $380,370,  and  said  town  has  now  no  outstanding 
indebtedness;    and 

WHEREAS,  The  incurring  of  said  indebtedness  will  not  cause  the  aggregate 
indebtedness  of  said  town  to  exceed  fifteen  (15)  per  cent  of  the  assessed  value  of 
all  the  taxable  real  estate  and  personal  property  of  said  town, 

NOW,  THEREFORE,  The  board  of  trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  do 
ordain    as    follows,    to- wit: 

SECTION  1. — There  shall  be  issued  by  the  Town  of  Ferndale  forty  (40) 
bonds  of  the  denomination  of  three  hundred  (300)  dollars  each,  bearing  interest  at 
the  rate  of  five  (5)  per  cent  per  annum,  payable  annually.  Said  bonds  shall  be 
numbered  consecutively  from  one  (1)  to  forty  (40),  both  numbers  inclusive,  and 
shall  be  divided  into  forty  (40)  series,  said  series  being  numbered  consecutively 
from  one  (1)  to  forty  (40),  both  inclusive.  Each  series  shall  consist  of  one  bond. 
The  first  series  shall  consist  of  bond  number  one  (1)  and  each  succeeding  series 
shall  consist  of  a  bond  bearing  a  number  similar  to  the  series  number.  Bond  num- 
ber one  (1)  shall  be  payable  on  the  first  day  of  November,  1900,  and  one  of  the 
remaining  bonds  shall  be  payable  and  shall  be  paid  on  the  first  day  of  November 
in  each  succeeding  calendar  year  thereafter  until  and  including  the  year  1939.  Said 
bonds  shall  be  payable  to  bearer  and  shall  be  signed  by  the  president  of  the  board 
of  trustees  of  said  town  and  by  the  town  treasurer  thereof  and  countersigned  by 
the  town  clerk  thereof  and  shall  have  affixed  thereto  the  seal  of  the  Town  of  Fern- 
dale. Each  of  said  bonds  shall  have  attached  thereto  interest  coupons  equal  in 
number  to  the  number  of  years  which  the  bond  is  to  run  before  maturity.  Each  of 
said  coupons  shall  represent  the  interest  for  one  year  upon  the  principal  amount 
of  the  bond  at  the  rate  of  five  per  cent  per  annum,  to-wit;  the  sum  of  $15.00,  and 
shall  be  payable  the  first  day  of  November  in  each  year.  Said  bonds  and  coupons 
shall  be  payable  in  gold  coin  of  the  United  Slates  and  shall  be  payable  at  the  office 
of  the  town  treasurer  of  said  town  in  said  Town  of  Ferndale.  Said  coupons  shall 
be  payable  to  bearer  and  shall  be  signed  by  the*  treasurer  of  said  town  by  original 
or  lithographed  fac  simile  signature.  Said  bonds  and  coupons  shall  be  substantially 
in  the  following  form,  to-wit: 

"UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA,  STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

Bond  No Series  No 

SEWER  BONDS  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE. 


BE  IT  KNOWN  that  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  in  the  County  of  Humboldt, 
State  of  California,  for  value  received,  hereby  acknowledges  itself  indebted  to  the 
bearer  hereof  in  the  sum  of  three  hundred  dollars  in  gold  coin  of  the  United  States, 
and  promises  to  pay  the  bearer  the  said  sum  in  such  gold  coin  on  the  first  day  of 

November,   1 ,   at  the  office  of  the  town   treasurer  in  said   Town   of  Ferndale, 

with  interest  at  the  rate  of  five  (5)  per  cent  per  annum,  payable  annually,  in  like 
gold  coin,  to  the  bearer  of  the  annexed  coupons  upon  presentation  at  the  time  and 
place    therein    specified. 

This  bond  is  issued  by  the  Town  of  Ferndale  for  the  purpose  of  constructing 
and  completing  sewers  by  virtue  and  in  pursuance  of  an  act  of  the  Legislature  of 
said  State,  entitled:  "An  Act  authorizing  the  incurring  of  indebtedness  by  cities, 
towns  and  municipal  corporations  incorporated  under  the  laws  of  this  State  for 
the  construction  of  water  works,  sewers,  etc.,  approved  March  19,  1889,  and  its 
amendments.' 


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It  is  hereby  certified  that  all  conditions,  acts  and  things  essential  to  the 
validity  of  this  bond  exist,  have  happened  and  have  been  done  and  that  all  require- 
ments of  law  and  of  the  constitution  relating  to  the  Issuance  hereof  have  been  fully 
complied  with  by  the  proper  bodies,  officers  and  persons  and  that  the  issue  hereof 
has  been  duly  authorized  and  directed  by  the  voles  of  over  two- thirds  of  all  the 
qualified  voters  of  said  town  voting  at  a  special  election  for  the  purpose  duly  called 
and  held  and  by  an  ordinance  of  the  board  of  trustees  duly  passed,  published  and 
approved,  and  that  provision  has  been  duly  made  for  the  collection  of  an  annual  tax 
sufficient  to  pay  the  interest  on  this  bond  as  it  falls  due,  and  a  sinking  fund  has 
been  duly  constituted  to  pay  the  principal  at  maturity,  and  that  the  debt  created 
hereby  and  this  bond  are  within  every  debt  and  other  limit  prescribed  by  law  and 
by   the   constitution. 

IN  WITNESS  WHEREOF  this  bond  is  sealed  with  the  common  seal  of  said 
town  and  signed  by  the  president  of  the  board  of  trustees  and  by  the  treasurer  and 
countersigned  by  the  clerk  of  said   town   thereto   duly  authorized   this  first  day  of 

November,   1899.  

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustses. 


Town  Treasurer 
Countersigned   by    Town   Clerk." 

To  each   of  said  bonds  shall  be  attached   interest  coupons   in   the   following 
forrn,   to-wit: 
£'$1&.00.  ••    "  '    Coupon  No 

On  the  first  day  of  November, ,  the  Town' of  Ferndale,  Hum- 
boldt County,  California,  will  pay  the  bearer  fifteen  dollars  in  gold  coin  of  the 
United  States  at  the  office  of  the  town  treasurer  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  as  interest 

on  its  sewer  bond  No    

Town  Treasurer 

SBC.  2 — The  town  clerk  of  said  town  is  hereby  authorized  and  directed  to 
procure  forty  (40)  blank  bonds  with  the  necessary  coupons  attached  of  the  form  and 
description  herein  specified  and  provided  for  and  to  have  the  same  specified  and 
provided  for  and  to  have  the  same  ready  for  execution  on  behalf  of  said  town  as 
soon  as  possible.  Said  bonds  shall  be  lithographed.  The  town  clerk,  the  president 
of  the  board  of  trustees  and  the  town  treasurer  of  said  town  are  hereby  authorized 
and  directed  to  execute 'said  bonds  in  conformity  with  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  3. — There  shall  be  levied  and  collected  annually  for  the  term  of  forty 
years,  or  until  all  of  said  bonds  are  paid,  cancelled  and  redeemed  by  the  proper 
authorities  of  said  town  at  the  time  provided  by  law  for  the  levy  and  collection  of 
the  taxes  of  said  town  and  in  addition  to  all  other  taxes  levied  for  town  purposes, 
a  special  tax  on  all  t,he  real  and  personal  property  in  said  town  sufficient  to  pay 
one-fortieth  part  of  the  aggregate  amount  of  said  indebtedness  so  incurred  and  of 
the  total  amount  of  said  bonds  and  also  sufficient  to  pay  the  annual  interest  as  it 
falls  due  on  said  bonds  that  may  be  from  year  to  year  outstanding.  The  taxes  so 
levied  and  collected  shall  be  deposited  in  the  treasury  of  said  toven  and  shall  be 
reserved  for  the  exclusive  purpose  of  paying  the  interest  coupons  of  said  bonds  and 
the  several  principal  sums  of  said  bonds  as  they  shall  fall  due. 

SEC.  4. — Bids  having  been  duly  invited  for  the  purchase  of  the  bonds,  the  execu- 
tion whereof  is  provided  for  herein  and  Arthur  D.  Thomson  having  been  the  highest 
and  best  bidder  therefor  and  this  board  having  duly  and  regularly  sold  said  bonds 
to  said  Thomson,   and  said   Thomson   having   sold   said   bonds   to   E.   H.    Rollins    & 


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Sons,  and  having  notified  this  board  of  that  fact,  the  town  treasurer  is  hereby 
authorized  and  directed  upon  the  due  execution  of  said  bonds  in  accordance  with 
this  ordinance  and  upon  the  receipt  from  said  E.  H,  Rollins  &  Sons  of  the  amount 
bid  for  said  bonds  by  said  Thomson,  to  deliver  said  bonds  to  said  E.  H.  Rollins& 
Sons. 

SEC.   5. — This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  as  prescribed  by  law. 

SEC.  6. — Upon  the  passage  of  this  ordinance  by  said  board  of  trustees  and 
the  approval  thereof  by  the  president  of  said  board,  the  same  shall  be  published 
one  time  in  the  "Semi-Weekly  Ferndale  Enterprise,"  a  nwspaper  published  and  cir- 
culated in  said  town,  and  the  town  clerk  is  hereby  ordered  and  directed  to  cause 
such  publication  of  this  ordinance  to  be  made  as  aforesaid. 

Finally  passed  and  adopted  by  the  board  of  trustees  of  the  town  of  Fern- 
dale  in  regular  meeting  assembled  this  30th  day  of  October,  1899. 

Ayes:   G.  M.  Brice,  A.  H.  Kausen,  H.  H.  Hatch,  C.  A.  Doe  and  A.  Berding. 

Noes:    None. 

Absent:   None. 

A.  BERDING. 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 
Attest:    JOS.   KERFOOT,   Town   Clerk. 

Approved  this  30th  day  of  October,  1899. 

A.  BERDING, 
fSEALj  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  65 
TIME  AND  PLACE  OF  HOLDING  BOARD  MEETINGS. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1. — The  place  of  meeting  of  the  board  of  trustees  shall  be  on  the 
second  floor  in  the  rear  room  o/  the  "Hart  Building"  situated  on  the  westerly  side 
of  Main  street  on  Lot  Nine  in  Block  Fourteen  in  Francis  Division  of  the  Town  of 
Ferndale. 

SBC.  2. — The  time  of  meeting  shall  be  the  first  Monday  in  each  month  and 
the  hour  of  meeting  shall  be  at  half  past  seven  o'clock,  p.  m.,  provided,  that  if 
the  first  Monday  falls  on  a  legal  holiday,  the  meeting  shall  be  held  on  the  day 
iollowing  at  the  same  hour. 

SEC.  3. — If  at  any  such  meetings  any  business  before  the  Board  remains  un- 
finished, the  Board  of  Trustees  may  adjourn  from  time  to  time  to  dispose  of  the 
same,   or  to   transact  other  business. 

SEC.  4. — This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after  its 
passage   and   publication. 

SEC.  5.— Ordinances  Ncs.   1  and   23  are  hereby  repealed. 

Finally  passed  and  adopted  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Fern- 
dale in  regular  meeting  assembled  this  15th  day  of  May,  1900. 

Attest:  J.  H.  TROST,  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

[SEAL]     J.   KERFOOT,   Town    Clerk. 

Ayes:   Berding,  Branstetter,  Porter  and  Trost. 

Noes:    None. 

Approved   this   15th   day  of  May,   1900. 

J.   H.   TROST,   President  of  the   Board   of  Trustees. 


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ORDINANCE  NO.   66. 
REGULATING    THE    KEEPING    AND    LICENSING    OF    DOGS. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1. — It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  own,  keep  or  harbor 
any  dog  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  without  first  register- 
ing said  dog  with  the  Town  Marshall  and  obtaining  each  year  a  license  therefor. 
The  amount  to  be  paid  for  such  license  shall  be  $2.00  and  shall  run  for  one  year 
from  the  date  of  issuance.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Town  Marshall  to  issue  to 
the  person  paying  for  such  license  a  metal  tag,  which  may  be  worn  upon  the  collar 
around  said  dog's  Meek,  having  the  number  of  license  plainly  marked  thereon.  Any 
person  violating  the  provisions  of  this  section  shall  be  guilty  of  a  disdemeanor  and 
upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  $25,  or  by  im- 
prisonment in  the  town  jail  for  a  period  not  exceeding  10  days,  or  by  both  such  fine 
and  imprisonment. 

SEC.  2 — Any  dog  found  running  at  large  within  the  corporate  limits  of  the 
Town  of  Ferndale  without  having  been  registered  as  in  section  one  provided,  shall 
be  taken  by  the  Poundmaster  and  kept  in  a  safe  place  provided  for  such  purpose 
and  kept  for  three  days;  and  the  Marshall  shall  forthwith  post  notices  in  three 
public  places  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  giving  a  description  of  said  dog  and  the 
name  of  the  owner,  if  known.  Said  notice  shall  also  state  that  if  the  owner  of  said 
dog  does  not  appear  to  claim  and  redeem  from  custody  said  dog  within  three  days 
and  paying  the  Town  Marshall  the  fee  herein  provided  for  taking  up  said  dog  the 
same  will  be  killed  or  otherwise  disposed  of. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Town  Marshall  to  kill  or  otherwise  dispose  of  all 
dogs  taken  up  and  not  redeemed,  and  he  shall  be  allowed  the  sum  of  $1.00  for  each 
dog  so  taken  and  killed  or  disposed  of. 

SEC.  3. — This  ordinance  shall  be  in  force  immediately. 

Passed  and  approved  this  4th  day  of  June,  1900. 

Attest:  J.   H.   TROST,    President   of   the   Board   of   Trustees. 

J.  KERFOOT,  Town  Clerk.  , 

Ayes:   Berding,  Branstetter  and  Trost.  Noes:    None. 

Approved  this  4th  day  of  June.  1900. 
[SEAL]  J.   H.   TROST,  President  of  the  Board   of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  67. 
CONCERNING    THE    ACCEPTANCE    OF    STREETS. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  No  street,  or  portion  thereof,  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale 
shall  be  accepted,  unless  the  same  is  not  less  than  fifty  feet  in  width,  and  unless 
the  same  is  pVoperly  graded  and  guttered,  and  until  it  has  been  referred  to  the 
Street  Committee,  or  the  Superintendent  of  Streets,  and  a  report  been  received  of 
its  condition. 

SEC.  2.  A  street  may  be  partially,  or  conditionally,  accepted  in  whole  or  in 
part,  under  such  terms  as  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  deem  reasonable  and  in  con- 
formity with  law. 


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SEC.  3.     No  street  shall  be  accepted  for  its  entire  width  until  the  private 
property  thereon  shall  be  uniform  from  crossing  to  crossing. 

SEC.  4.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

Passed  and  approved  this  4th  day  of  June,  1900. 

Attest:  J.  H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
J.  KERFOOT,  Town  Clerk. 

Ayes:       Berding,  Branstetter  and  Trost.     Noes:    None. 

Approved  this  4th   day  of  June,   1900. 

(Seal)  J.  H.   TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  68. 
DEFINING    CERTAIN    MISDEMEANORS    AND    PROVIDING    FOR    PENALTIES 

FOR  VIOLATION. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  No  person  shall  maintain  any  awning  or  any  other  projection 
or  suffer  the  same  to  remain,  at  an  altitude  of  less  than  seven  and  one-half  feet, 
over  any  sidewalk  in  front  of  premises  owned,  occupied,  or  controlled  by  him  in  the 
Town  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.  2.  No  person  shall  hereafter  construct  any  wooden  awning  over  any 
sidewalk  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.  3.  No  person  shall  keep  any  swine  within  the  limits  of  the  Town  of 
Ferndale,  except  for  purposes  of  exhibition  at  what  is  known  as  the  "Fair  Grounds." 

SEC.  4.  No  person  shall  slaughter  or  kill  any  animal  within  the  limits  of 
the  Town  of  Ferndale,  without  the  permission  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.  5.  No  person  shall  maintain  any  smoke-house  in  the  Town  of  Fern- 
dale, unless  constructed  entirely  of  brick,  stone  or  iron. 

SEC.  6.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  pun- 
ished by  a  fine  not  exceeding  $100,  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  town  jail  for  a  period 
not  exceeding  three  months,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

SEC.  7.  This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  ten  days  after  pas- 
sage thereof. 

Passed  and  approved  this  4th  day  of  June,  1900. 

Attest:  J.  H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

JOS.  KERFOOT,  Town  Clerk. 

Ayes:     Berding,  Branstetter  and  Trost.  Noes:    None. 

(Seal)  ,  J.  H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  69. 

PROVIDING  FOR   THE   PROTECTION   OF  PERSONS   AND   PROPERTY. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.     No  stove   pipes  extending  through  the  side  walls  or  roofs  or 


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buildings  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  shall  be  permitted  unless  encased  in  earthware 
or  brick. 

All  chimneys  and  flues  hereafter  constructed  in  buildings  in  the  Town  of 
Ferndale  shall  be  at  least  8x8  inches  or  its  equivalent  in  the  clear  inside. 

All  chimneys  and  flues  shall  be  plastered  thoroughly  with  lime  or  cement 
inside  and  outside. 

SEC.  2.  Whenever  in  the  judgment  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  any  building, 
tower,  wall,  chimney  or  smokestack,  awning  or  other  appurtenance  to  a  building, 
shall,  from  any  cause  whatever,  be  in  a  condition  to  be  dangerous  to  persons  and 
property,  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  give  notice  to  the  owner  or  owners  of  such 
buildings,  tower,  wall,  chimney  or  smokestack,  or  other  appurtenances  to  a  building, 
sheds,  or  fences,  or  to  his  or  her,  or  their  agent,  or  the  person  having  control  there- 
of, if  the  owner  can  not  be  found,  to  remove  the  same  forthwith;  and  the  person 
receiving  such  notice  shall  immediately  comply  with  the   requirements  hereof. 

SEC.  3.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  pun- 
ished by  a  fine  not  exceeding  $100,  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  town  jail  for  a  period 
not  exceeding  three  months,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

SEC.  4.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

Passed  and  approved  this  4th   day  of  June,   1900. 

Attest:  J.  H.   TROST, 

President   of  the  Board   of   Trustees. 

JOS.   KERFOOT,   Town   Clerk. 

Ayes:      Berding,  Branstetter  and  Tro&t.     Noes:   None. 

Approved  this  4th  day  of  June,  1900. 

(Seal)  J.   H.  TROST, 

President   of   the    Board   of   Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  72. 
RELATING    TO    TOWN    OFFICERS. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  All  books,  papers,  plats,  records  and  files,  made,  or  made  use 
of,  by  any  officer  or  employe  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  in  the  performance  of  his 
official  duties,  shall  be  deemed  and  considered  as  belonging  to  the  town,  and  shall 
be  delivered  to  his  successor  in  office,  who  shall  give  duplicate  receipts  in  writing 
therefor,  one  of  which  receipts  shall  be  filed  with  the  Town  Clerk. 

SEC.  2.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  shall  provide  offices 
for  the  Town'  Clerk,  Marshal  and  Superintendent  of  Streets,  where  the  books  and 
records  of  said  officers  shall  be  kept. 

SEC.  3.  The  offices  of  Town  Clerk,  Marshal,  and  Superintendent  of  Streets, 
shall  be  kept  at  the  place  or  places  where  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall,  from  time 
to  time,  by  resolution  designate. 

SEC.  4.  All  books  and  records  of  the  officers  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  shall 
be  open  to  the  inspection  of  any  citizen  at  any  time  during  business  hours.  Copies 
and  extracts  from  such  books  and  records,  duly  verified,  shall  be  given  by  the  offi- 
cer having  the  same  in  custody,  to  any  person  demanding  the  same,  upon  paying 
or  tendering  ten  cents  per  folio  of  one  hundred  words. 

SEC.  5.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  take  away  from  any  of  said 
offices  any  book  or  any  record  belonging  to   said  offi<ces:    provided,   however,   that 


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when  the  books  and  records  of  any  of  said  offices  are  required  as  evidence  in  any 
court,  or  at  Board  meetings,  this  section  does  not  apply. 

SEC.  6.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

Passed  and  adopted  this  11th  day  of  June,  1900. 

Attest:  .  J.  H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
JOS.  KERFOOT,  Town  Clerk. 

Ayes:      Berding,  Branstetter  and  Trost.     Noes:    None. 

Approved  this  11th  day  of  June,  1900. 

(Seal)  J.   H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  73. 

REGULATING   THE   ERECTION    OF  POLES   AND  HANGING    OF  WIRES   FOR 
TELEPHONE,   TELEGRAPH  AND  ELECTRIC   LIGHT  PURPOSES. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  corporation,  association 
or  partnership  to  set  any  poles  in  the  Town  01  Ferndale  for  the  purpose  of  carrying 
telephone,  telegraph  or  electric  light  wires,  or  for  the  purpose  of  supporting  any 
lamp  or  light,  or  hang  wires  thereon  except  in  the  manner  provided  by  and  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  2.  All  telephone,  telegraph  and  electric  light  poles  erected  within  the 
limits  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  for  the  purpose  of  supporting  or  carrying  any  tele- 
phone, telegraph  and  electric  light  wires,  must  be  perpendicular  and  not  more  than 
150  feet  apart. 

SEC.  3.  No  wires  hung  upon  any  such  poles  shall  be  less  than  18  feet  from 
the  official  sidewalk  grade.  All  primary  or  direct  current  electric  light'  wires  shall 
be  at  least  three  feet  above  all  other  wires. 

SEC.  4.  Every  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall 
be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  town  jail 
not  exceeding  three   months,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

SEC.   5.     This  ordinance   shall  take   effect   immediately. 

Passed  and  approved  this  11th  day  of  June,   19*00. 

Attest:  J-  H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
J.  KERFOOT,  Town  Clerk. 

Approved  this  11th  day  of  June,  1900. 

Ayes:      Berding,   Branstetter  and   Trost.     Noes:    None. 

(Seal)  J-   H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  74. 
TO  PROTECT  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE  AGAINST  FIRES  AND  PROVIDING 

FIRE  DISTRICTS. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.     No  person  shall  construct  or  caused  to  be  constructed  in  the 


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Town  of  Ferndale  any  wall  or  walls  of  any  building  except  as  in  this  section  pro- 
vided. All  buildings  to  be  hereafter  constructed  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  fronting 
on  Main  street  between  the  intersection  of  said  Main  street  and  Ocean  avenue  and 
the  intersection  of  said  Main  street  with  Shaw  avenue  shall  be  constructed  as  fol- 
lows and  not  otherwise:  All  wooden  buildings  shall  be  of  solid  walls  of  not  less 
than  5%  inches  thick. 

SEC.  2.  Any  person  who  shall,  or  as  owner  or  tenant  cause  to  be  violated, 
any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  be  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon 
conviction  thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  two  hundred  dollars. 

SEC.  3'.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

Passed  and  approved  this  18th  day  of  June,  1900. 

Attest:  J.  H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
JOS.  KERFOOT,  Town  Clerk. 

Approved  this   18th  day  of  June,   1900. 

(Seal)  J.   H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  75. 

AUTHORIZING  THE  TOWN  MARSHAL,  TO  REMOVE  OBSTRUCTIONS,  AND 
PROVIDING  FOR  THE  PROTECTION  AND  SALE  OF  UNCLAIMED 
PROPERTY. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  Town  Marshal  is  hereby  authorized  and  empowered  to 
remove  or  cause  to  be  removed,  to  any  place  selected  by  him,  all  materials,  of  what- 
ever  nature,  which  obstruct  the  free  use  of  any  street,  alley,  lane,  or  sidewalk  in 
the  Town  of  Ferndale,  or  which  render  the  same  dangerous  to  the  public.  The  own- 
era  of  materials  so  removed  may  recover  the  same  before  the  same  are  sold  under 
provisions  of  section  2,  on  payment  of  the  actual  costs  and  charges  of  such  re- 
moval and  other  incurred  expenses. 

SEC.  2.  The  Town  Marshal  shall  safely  keep  all  property  taken  by  him 
under  section  1  of  this  ordinance  for  30  days,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time,  if  not 
claimed  by  the  owner  thereof,  said  property-  must  be  sold  at  public  auction  to  the 
highest  bidder  for  cash  after  two  weeks'  notice  of  the  sale  in  the  official  newspaper 
of  said  town  of  the  time  and  place  of  sale;  and  after  having  paid  the  just  and 
reasonable  expenses  of  storage,  if  any,  the  advertising  and  sale,  shall  keep  the  pro- 
ceeds, for  six  months,  subject  to  the  lawful  claim  of  any  person  which  may  be  made 
by  the  owners  of  any  of  the  property  sold. 

SEC.  3.  The  Town  Marshal  shall,  at  the  expiration  of  six  months  after 
every  sale  hereunder  made,  pay  into  the  general  fund  all  moneys  remaining  in  his 
hands  on  account  of  such  sale. 

SEC.  4.  The  Town  Recorder  may  hear  and  determine  any  complaint  made 
by  a  person  interested  in  the  disposition  of  any  money  or  property  mentioned  in 
this  section,  and  may,  upon  hearing,  direct  the  delivery  of  any  money  or  property 


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or  the  payment  of  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of  any  property  to  the  person  entitled 
thereto. 

This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  immediately. 
Passed  and  adopted  this  18th  day  of  June,  1900. 

Attest:  J-  H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
JOS.   KERFOOT,   Town   Clerk. 

S  Ayes:    Berding,  Porter,   Doe  and  Trost.     Noes:    None. 
Approved  this  18th  day  of  June,  1900. 

(Seal)  J-   H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  77. 
CONCERNING   THE    SALE    OF   MIDK   AND   INSPECTION    OF   DAIRIES. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  sell,  or  offer  for  sale,  or 
to  distribute  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  any  impure,  unwholesome,  adulterated  or 
watered  milk  or  cream,  or  milk  from  any  diseased  cow,  of  from  any  cow  fed  upon 
food  calculated  to  render  the  milk  of  such  cow  unwholesome,  or  from  ahy  cow  kept 
at  any  dairy  or  place  in  an  unsanitary  condition. 

SEC.  2.  No  person  shall  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  sell,  offer  for  sale  or  ex- 
change any  milk  without  first  obtaining  and  having  a  permit  therefor  from  the 
Health  Officer  of  said  town.  To  obtain  said  permit  the  owner  or  agent  of  any  dairy . 
or  place,  or  any  other  person  desiring  such  permit,  must  first  register  his  name, 
or  the  names  of  the  members  of  the  firm,  as  the  case  may  b?,  and  enter  the  name 
and  location  of  the  dairy  or  place  from  which  such  milk  is  obtained  or  sold,  in  a 
book  kept  in  the  office  of  said  Health  Officer,  and  sign  a  written  consent  to  the  en- 
forcement of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  and  also  authorizing  the  Health 
Officer  and  the  Board  of  Health  to  inspect  any  dairy  or  place  owned  or  controlled 
by  applicant,  and  the  cows  thereat.  Thereupon  said  permit  shall  be  issued  by  said 
Health  Officer  and  shall  authorize  the  sale  of  milk  or  cream  by  applicant  and  his 
agents,  and  those  purchasing  milk  from  him,  produced  at  the  dairy  or  place  named 
therein,  for  the  period  of  one  year,  unless  sooner  revoked  by  the  Board  of  Health, 
which  Board  is  hereby  authorized  to  revoke  the  same  for  violation  of  any  of  the 
provisions  of  this  ordinance,  or  in  case  any  diseased  cow  is  allowed  to  remain  at 
the  dairy  or  place  from  which  the  sale  of  milk  has  been  authorized  by  said  permit, 
after  notification  from  said  Board  of  Health  that  such  cow  is  diseased.  Said  permit 
may  alse  be  revoked  upon  refusal  of  the  owner  or  manager  of  any  dairy  or  place 
where  cows  are  kept  to  allow  said  place  and  the  cows  thereat  to  be  inspected  by  the 
officers  of  the  Board  of  Health,  which  officers  are  hereby  authorized  to  make  such 
inspection. 

SEC.  3.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  pun- 
ished by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  (100)  dollars. 

SEC.  4.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


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Passed  and  adopted  this  2d  day  of  July,  1900. 

Attest:  J.  H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
JOS.   KERFOOT,   Town   Clerk. 

Ayes:      Berding,  Branstetter,  Porter  and  Trost.     Noes:      None. 

(Seal)  J.   H.  TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  78. 

REGULATING  THE  PLUMBING  AND  DRAINAGE  OF  BUILDINGS  AND  FOR 
THE  PROTECTION  OF  THE  PUBLIC  HEALTH,  AND  PROVIDING  PEN- 
ALTY FOR  VIOLATION  THEREOF. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  plumbing  and  drainage  of  all  buildings  and  additions  here- 
after erected  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  shall  be  executed  in  accordance  with  the  plans 
and  specifications  previously  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Town  Clerk  and  duly  approved 
by  the  Inspector  of  Plumbing  and  Drainage  and  in  compliance  with  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  2.  No  plumber  shall  do  any  plumber's  work  in  any  building  or  addition 
hereafter  erected  or  moved  in  said  town  until  he  has  first  received  a  permit  so  to  do. 
To  obtain  such  permit  plans  and  specifications  correctly  describing  in  detail  work 
to  be  done  shall  be  filed  in  the  office  of  the  Town  Clerk,  and  a  fee  of  one  dollar  be 
paid  to  the  Inspector  of  Plumbing  and  Drainage  for  cost  of  examination  of  plans  and 
specifications  and  the  completed  work. 

Whereupon,  if  such  plans  and  specifications  are  in  accordance  with  the  or- 
dinances and  the  rules  of  the  Board  of  Health,  the  said  Inspector  shall  issue  the 
said  permit.  If  the  said  plans  and  specifications  do  not  conform  to  the  official  re- 
quirements they  shall  be  returned  to  the  applicant  by  the  said  Inspector,  together 
with  his  objections  thereto. 

SEC.  3.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall,  annually,  appoint  an  Inspector  of 
Plumbing  and  Drainage,  who  shall  hold  office  only  at  the  pleasure  of  the  said  Board 
of  Trustees. 

SEC.  4.  Every  person  having  a  fixed  place  of  business  who  engages  in  the 
business  of  plumbing  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of  $2.00  per 
quarter;  provided,  that  when  plumbing  is  done  in  connection  \vi:h  the  business  of 
selling  goods,  wares  and  merchandise  for  which  a  license  tax  is  paid  to  said  town, 
no  license  shall  be  exacted  for  such  work. 

SEC.  5.  Every  master  plumber,  firm  or  corporation,  shall  give  a  bond  to 
the  Town  of  Ferndale  in  the  sum  of  $500.00  with  two  good  and  sufficient  sureties 
for  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties  as  a  plumber,  and  for  the  benefit  of  persons 
aggrieved  by  his  acts  or,  negligence,  and  who  shall  be  responsible  for  the  acts  of 
any  journeyman  plumber  working  under  him  or  them. 

SEC.  6.  All  material  must  be  of  good  quality  and  free  from  defect;  all  de- 
fective material  to  be  removed  and  sound  material  to  be  put  in  its  place,  and  the 
work  must  be  executed  in  a  thorough  and  workmanlike  manner. 

The  arrangement  of  soil  and  waste  pipes  must  be  as  direct  as  possible.  The 
soil  waste  pipes  and  the  traps,  where  convenient,  should  be  exposed  to  view  for 
ready  inspection  at  all  times,   and  for  convenience   in   repairing. 


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Whenever  a  party  desires  to  connect  a  building  with  the  street  sewer,  he 
shall  notify  the  Inspector  of  Plumbing  and  Drainage,  and  all  such  connections  shall 
be  made  under  his  supervision,  to  his  satisfaction,  in  accordance  with  these  rules 
and  not  otherwise.  The  pipe  running  to  the  building  shall  be  connected  with  the 
pipe  extending  from  the  street  sewer,  and  shall  be  four  (4)  inches  in  diameter,  in- 
side measurement,  and  shall  be  laid  in  the  same  manner  and  in  accordance  with 
the  same  specifications  as  the  street  sewers,  and  shall  rise  on  grada  of  not  less  than 
one-quarter  of  an  inch  to  the  foot. 

Provided,  that  in  case  of  contiguous  or  adjoining  buildings,  one  of  which  is 
one  or  more  stories  higher  than  the  other,  then  a  four  inch  running  trap  with  a 
four  inch  air  inlet  on  the  house  side  shall  be  placed  in  the  connecting  house  drain 
of  the  lower  building  to  and  inside  of  property  line.  All  waste  pipes  coming  from 
the  house  as  soil  pipes,  pipes  from  bath  tubs,  wash  stands,  kitchens,  etc.,  must  be 
separately  trapped  and  vented  before  entering  the  main  four  inch  house  drain. 

SEC.  7.  When  there  is  a  sewer  in  the  stueet  every  house  or  building  must  be 
separately  and  independently  connected  with  it  by  a  salt-glazed  vitrified  pipe.  When 
possible,  such  connection  must  be  made  directly  in  front  of  the  house.  When  there 
is  no  sewer  in  the  street,  and  it  is  necessary  to  construct  a  private  sewer  to  con- 
nect with  a  sewer  in  an  adjacent  street,  alley  or  avenue,  it  must  be  laid  in  the 
street  on  which  the  house  fronts,  and  not  through  the  yards  or  under  the  house. 

Every  house  or  building  hereafter  erected  must  have  the  house  drain  con- 
structed of  cast  iron  where  it  lies  under  'the  building  and  to  extend  not  less  than 
two  feet  outside  of  the  building.  The  house  drain  must  have  a  fall  of  at  least  one- 
quarter  (%)  of  an  inch  to  the  foot;  it  must  run  along  the  foundation  wall  where 
practicable,  or,  if  laid  under  the  Jower  floor  of  a  building,  must  be  hung  in  iron 
straps  securely  fastened  to  the  floor  joists.  It  must  be  laid  in  as  straight  a  line  as 
possible.  All  changes  in  direction  must  be  made  in  curved  pipes,  and  all  connec- 
tions with  "Y"  branches'  and  one-eighth  bends.  No  brick,  sheet  metal  or  earthware 
flue  shall  be  used  as  a  sewer  ventilator,  nor  shall  any  chimney  flue  be  used  for  this 
purpose  . 

SEC.  8.  Every  soil  pipe  shall  be  of  cast  iron  or  lead;  waste  pipes  shall  be 
of  cast  iron  or  lead. 

SEC.  9.  All  cast  iron  pipe  and  fittings  for  waste  and  soil  pipe  must  be 
coated  both  inside  and  outside  with  asphaltum  or  coal-tar  pitch,  or  some  other 
equivalent  substance,  applied  hot,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Inspector. 

SEC.  10.  All  iron  soil  or  waste  pipes  before  being  covered  up,  must  have 
all  openings  stopped  and  be  filled  with  water  above  highest  fixture  and  allowed  to 
stand  until  inspected  and  approved.  All  connections  of  lead  with  iron  pipe  must 
be  made  with  a  brass  ferrule  of  the  same  size  as  the  lead  pipe  and  calked  into  'the 
iron  pipe  and  connected  to  the  lead  pipe  by  a  wiped  joint.  All  connections  of  lead 
pipe  must  be  of  wiped  joints,  except  4-inch  closet  ferrules. 

SEC.  11.  Every  water  closet,  sink,  basin,  bath  or  set  of  wash  trays  or  other 
vessels  connected  with  the  drain  pipes,  must  be  separately  and  effectively  trapped 
and  vented.  The  traps  must  be  placed  as  near  the  fixture  as  practicable,  not  to 
exceed  thirty  inches  from  seal  of  trap  to  line  of  vent.  When  the  trap  of  any  fix- 
ture is  set  more  than  thirty  inches  from  the  vertical  line  of  a  pipe,  a  return  con- 
nection must  in  all  cases  be  provided. 

SEC.  12.  All  traps  must  be  protected  from  syphonage  by  special  air  pipes 
of  lead,  galvanized,  wrought  or  cast  iron,  to  be  in  size  not  less  than  the  size  of  the 
waste  pipes  which  then  vent,  and  those  used  to  supply  air  to  traps  of  single  closets 
located  in  the  basement  or  on  the  first  floor  of  a  building,  not  less  than  two  inches 


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in  diameter.  These  pipes  must  extend  two  feet  above  the  roof  or  fire  walls.  The 
air  pipes  of  two  or  more  water  closets  may  be  united  above  the  highest  fixture  and 
shall  in  that  case  be  not  less  than  four  inches  indiameter.  Several  air  pipes  may 
be  combined  in  •  the  same  manner.  The  air  pipe  must  have  a  continual  slope  to 
avoid  collecting  water  by  condensation.  All  connections  to  vent  pipes  must  have 
angles  of  at  least  45  degrees. 

SEC.  13.  Every  safe  under  a  basin,  bath,  urinal,  tank  or  other  fixture,  must 
be  drained  by  a  special  pipe  of  lead  or  wrought  iron  not  directly  connected  with 
any  soil,  waste  pipe,  drain  or  sewer,  but  made  to  discharge  outside  the  house. 

SEC.  14.  No  person  shall  connect  a  steam  exhaust  with  any  drain,  soil  or 
waste  pipe. 

SEC.  15.  Rain-water  leaders  must  never  be  used  as  soil,  waste  or  vent  pipes, 
nor  shall  any  soil,  waste  or  vent  pipes  be  used  as  a  rain-water  leader.  No  rain- 
water leader  shall  be  connected  with  a  sewer. 

SEC.  16.  All  leaders,  soil,  waste,  air  and  drain  pipes  inside  of  buildings, 
before  being  covered  up,  must  have  all  openings  stopped  up  and  be  filled  with  water. 
The  said  test  must  be  made  in  the  presence  of  the  Inspector  of  Plumbing  and 
Drainage,  and,  if  satisfactory,  he  shall  issue  a  proper  certificate.  Notice  must  be 
given  to  the  Inspector  when  the  work  is  sufficiently  advanced  for  inspection. 

SEC.  17.  All  cast  iron  pipe  house  drains  under  houses  shall,  after  being 
laid,  be  filled  with  water  and  allowed  to  remain  uncovered  until  inspected  by  the 
Inspector  of  Plumbing  and  Drainage. 

SEC.  18.  All  vents  from  water  closets  must  be  extended  two  feet  above  the 
main  plate  or  fire  wall  of  any  building. 

SEC.  19.  No  person  shall  connect  any  cesspool,  open  gutter,  vault  or  cis- 
tern with  any  public  sewer  or  with  any  private  sewer  connecting  with  a  public 
sewer. 

SEC.  20.  The  Inspector  shall  have  power  to  stop  and  prevent  from  dis- 
charging into  any  public  sewer  or  any  private  drain  which  is  liable  to  damage  said 
sewer  or  stop  the  1  oM   of  sewer. 

SEC.  21.  Every  water  closet  shall  be  set  on  rubber  gasket  and  brass  flange* 
and  in  no  case  set  in  putty  or  cement. 

SEC.  22.  Every  water  closet  shall  be  flushed  from  a  tank  containing  not 
less  than  three  gallons  of  water. 

SEC.  23.     The  minimum  diameter  of  soil   pipe  permitted  is  four  inches. 

SEC.  24.     The  exit  pipes  must  be  provided  with  strong  metallic   strainers. 

SEC.  25.  Every  hotel,  restaurant,  boarding  house,  butcher  shop  and  cream- 
ery shall  be  provided  with  a  grease  trap,  which  shall  be  cleaned  at  least  once  in 
every  week. 

SEC.  26.  Every  livery  stable  connected  with  a  public  sewer  shall  be  pro- 
vided with  a  sand  trap,  which  shall  be  cleaned  once  in  every  week. 

SEC.  27.  All  horizontal  pipes  shall  be  provided  with  a  brass  clean-out  at 
>the  end  thereof. 

1  SEC.  28.  No  person  shall  maintain  any  cesspool  or  privy  vault  on  any  land 
owned,  controlled,  or  occupied  by  him,  fronting  on  any  open  street  in  the  Town  of 
Ferndaje  in  which  there  is  a  public  sewer,  for  any  period  of  time  langer  than  thirty 
days  after  the  acceptance  of  such  sewer  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  town. 

SEC.  29.  Every  person  owning,  controlling  or  occupying  land  on  which  a 
tenement  is  constructed,  and  which  fronts  on  any  open  street  in  the  Town  of  Fern- 
dale  in  which  there  is  a  public  sewer,  shall,  within  thirty  days  after  the  acceptance 
of  such  sewer  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  said  town,  construct  a  house  drain  con- 


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necting  said  tenement  with  such  sewer  in  such  a  manner  that  all  sewer  waste  from 
such  tenement  shall  be  drained  into  said  public  sewer. 

SEC.  30.  Any  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance 
shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  pun- 
ished by  a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars. 

SEC.  31.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

Passed  and  adopted  this  2d  day  of  July,  1900. 

Ayes:      Branstetter,   Porter  and   Trost.     Noes:    Berding. 
Attest:  J-  H.  TROST,      ( 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
JOS.   KERFOOT,   Town   Clerk. 

Approved  this  2d  day  of  July,  1900. 

(Seal)  J-    H.   TROST, 

President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  79. 

AN   ORDINANCE   TO   PERMIT   GRACE   FRANCIS   TO   LAY   WATER  PIPES   IN 
THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  privilege  is  hereby  granted  to  Grace  Francis,  and  her  as- 
signs or  successors  in  interest,  to  lay  and  maintain  pipes  through  any  or  all  of  the 
streets,  alleys,  and  highways  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  for  the  purpose  of  supplying 
the  Town  of  Ferndale,  and  the  inhabitants  thereof,  with  fresh,  pure  water. 

SEC.  2.  The  said  town  hereby  reserves  the  right  to  grant  similar  privileges 
to  any  other  person  or  association. 

SEC.  3.  The  laying  of  such  pipes  must  be  under  the  direction  of  the  Su- 
perintendent of  Streets,  and  must  be  so  laid  as  to  do  no  injury  to  the  proper  use 
of  paving,  planking,  or  macadamizing  of  said  streets  or  alleys,  nor  to  private  prop- 
erty situated  thereon.  When  any  excavation  is  necessary  for  'the  proper  laying  of 
such  pipes,  the  streets,  alleys,  and  highways  must  be  left  in  as  good  condition  as 
possible  as  they  were  before  such  digging  was  done;  and  all  damages  caused  there- 
by must  be  repaired  at  the  expense  of  said  Grace  Francis,  her  assigns,  or  succes- 
sors in  interest. 

SEC.  4.  Such  pipes  must  be  so  laid  as  to  not  interfere  with  any  pipes  al- 
ready laid  by  authority  of  the  Town  for  any  purpose,  and  must  be  so  laid  that 
other  pipes  can  hereafter  be  conveniently  laid  through  the  same  streets. 

SEC.  5.  Said  Grace  Francis,  her  assigns  or  successors  in  interest,  shall 
properly  observe  all  ordinances  now  or  hereafter  adopted  in  laying  such  pipes, 

SEC.  6.  The  wate'r  works  must  be  kept  in  proper  order,  and  a  constant 
supply  of  fresh  water  kept  on  hand  fit  for  general  domestic  use,  and  must  supply 
the  same  to  every  person  who  is  willing  and  able  to  pay  therefor  at  uniform  rates, 
so  long  as  the  supply  shall  last. 

SEC.  7.  This  franchise  is  granted  upon  the  further  condition  that  the  Town 
of  Ferndale  shall  have  the  right  to  regulate  the  charges  of  supplying  water  to  the 
Town  of  Ferndale  and  the  inhabitants  thereof. 

SEC.  8.     This  franchise  is  granted  for  a  period  of  fifty  years. 


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SEC.   9.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  from  and  after   its   passage  and 
publication. 

Passed  and  approved  this  3rd  day  of  June,  1901. 

J.  H.  TROST, 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
Attest:     W.  H.  ROB  ARTS,  Town  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  80. 

REGULATING  THE  REMOVAL  OF  BUILDINGS  OVER  OR  THROUGH  PUBLIC 
STREETS  AND  HIGHWAYS. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  No  person,  firm,  or  corporation  shall  move,  or  cause  to  be 
moved,  any  building  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  on,  over,  or  through  any  public 
street,  alley,  or  highway  therein,  except  having  first  complied  with  the  provisions 
hereof. 

SEC.  2.  No  person,  firm,  or  corporation  shall  move  or  cause  to  be  moved 
on,  over  or  through  any  public  street,  alley  or  highway  in  said  Town,  any  building 
without  first  obtaining  from  the  Board  of  Trustees  a  permit  in  writing  so  to  do. 
Such  permit  shall  not  be  issued  until  after  the  person,  firm,  or  corporation 
so  applying  therefor  shall  have  first  delivered  to  the  Town  Clerk  a  bond,  running 
to  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  in  the  sum  of  $200.00,  with  at  least  two  good  and  suffi- 
cient sureties  approved  by  the  President  of  -the  Board,  which  bond  shall  be  condi- 
tional that  the  party  so  desiring  to  move  buildings  in  said  Town  will  strictly  com- 
ply with  all  the  conditions  and  requirements  of  this  ordinance,  and  of  any  ordi- 
nances hereafter  passed  regulating  house-moving,  and  of  any  order,  rule,  or  regu- 
lation concerning  house-moving,  'that  may  hereafter  be  passed  by  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  and  that  said  party  will  pay  any  and  all  damages  which  may  result  by 
reason  of  any  house-moving  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  by  said  party,  his  agents,  em- 
ployees, or  workmen,  to  any  fence,  tree,  pavement,  streets,  sidewalk,  or  to  any 
telegraph,  telephone,  or  electric  light  pole  or  wire  belonging  to  the  Town  of  Fern- 
dale, or  belonging  to  any  telegraph,  telephone,  or  electric  light  company  having  a 
franchise  in  said  Town,  or  to  any  water  hydrants  or  water  pipes  belonging  to  said 
Town,  or  to  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  having  a  franchise  in  said  Town,  and 
conditioned  further  that  said  party,  the  said  principal,  will  save,  indemnify,  and 
keep  harmless  the  Town  of  Ferndale  against  all  liabilities,  judgments,  costs  and 
expenses  which  may  in  any  manner  accrue  against  said  Town  in  consequence  of 
the  granting  of  such  permit,  and  will  in  all  things  comply  with  the  conditions  of 
such  permit.  Any  such  bond  filed  by  any  person,  firm,  or  corporation  shall  operate 
as  a  bond  for  the  purposes  required  by  ithis  ordinance  for  the  term  of  one  year 
from  the  date  of  filing  thereof,  in  so  far  that  no  other  additional  bond  need  be  given 
by  such  party  for  the  removal  of  houses  in  said  Town  during  the  said  period  of 
one  year,  and  at  the  expiration  of  said  year,  a  new  bond  shall  be  required  to  be 
filed  by  such  party  before  the  issuance  to  such  party  of  any  permits  hereunder. 
Such  permit  shall  specify  the  character  of  the  building  to  be  removed,  the  place 
from  which,  and  to  which  said  building  is  to  be  moved,  and  the  street  on,  over,  or 
through  which  such  removal  may  be  made;   and  said  building  shall  not  be  moved 


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on,  over,  or  through  any  other  streets,  alleys.,  or  highways,  except  those  named  in 
said  permit. 

SEC.  3.  All  removals  made  under  such  permit  shall  be  done  in  a  careful 
manner,  and  shall  be  prosecuted  with  diligence,  and  shall  be  under  the  superintend- 
ence and  control  of  'the  Superintendent  of  Streets. 

SEC.  4.  No  person,  Arm,  or  corporation  owning  or  having  charge  of  the 
removal  of  any  building  through  the  public  streets,  alleys  or  highways,  shall  per- 
mit such  building  to  be  or  stand  on  any  street,  alley,  highway,  or  public  grounds, 
within  the  limits  of  one  block  for  a  longer  period  than  twenty-four  hours. 

SEC.  5.  No  person,  firm  or  corporation  owning  or  having  charge  of  the  re- 
moval of  any  building  through  the  public  streets  shall  allow  or  cause  the  injury  of 
any  street,  sidewalk,  curbing,  tree,  fence,  or  private  or  public  property  by  reason 
of  such  removal. 

SEC.  6.  When  the  cutting  or  temporary  removal  of  any  pole,  or  of  any 
public  or  private  telegraph,  telephone,  or  electric  light  wire,  or  any  other  wire  pass- 
ing along  or  over  any  street,  lane  or  alley,  becomes  necessary  for  the  removal  of 
any  building,  the  person  in  charge  of  such  removal,  at  least  six  hours  in  advance 
of  reaching  the  same,  shall  notify  the  person  or  persons  having  charge  of  and 
control  over  such  wire  or  wires,  and  the  person  so  notified  shall  cause  such  wires 
to  be  promptly  cut  or  removed  and  replaced.  Provided,  however,  that  in  every  case 
in  which  the  cutting  of  the  wires,  or  the  removal  of  poles  is  necessary,  the  person 
or  persons  having  charge  of  the  removal  of  buildings  shall  pay  the  entire  cost  and 
expense  of  the  cutting,  removal,  and  replacing  of  the  wires  and  poles. 

SEC.  7.  Every  person  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  is 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be  punished  by  a  fine 
of  not  to  exceed  $100.00  or  by  imprisonment  in  the  Town  Jail  for  not  to  exceed  30 
days,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment.      * 

SEC.  8.  The  Board  of  Trustees  may,  at  any  time,  for  such  cause  as  they, 
or  a  majority  of  them,  deem  sufficient,  revoke  any  permission  or  license  granted 
under  this  ordinance;  and  it  is  especially  ordained  and  declared  that  all  such  per- 
mits and  licenses  granted  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance,  al- 
though granted  for  the  nominal  term  of  one  year,  are  held  at  the  pleasure  of  said 
Board  of  Trustees. 

SEC.  9.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

Finally  passed  and  adopted  this  3rd  day  of  June,  1901. 

J.   H.  TROST, 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
Attest:  W.  H.  ROBARTS,  Town  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  81. 

REGULATING  THE  TRAFFIC,  VENDING  AND  DISPOSING  OF  SPIRITUOUS, 
MALT  AND  FERMENTED  LIQUORS  AND  WINES,  OR  ANY  ADMIXTURE 
THEREOF.IN  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE,  PROVIDING  FOR  A  LICENSE 
THEREFOR   AND  ESTABLISHING  A   PENALTY  FOR  VIOLATION. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.     It  is  hereby  declared  to  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm   or 


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corporation  to  establish,  open,  keep,  maintain  or  carry  on,  within  the  Town  of  Fern- 
dale,  any  saloon,  bar,  store,  stand,  or  any  place  where  spiritous  malt  or  fermented 
liquors  or  wines,  or  any  admixture  thereof,  are  sold,  furnished,  disposed  of  or  given 
away;  or  for  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  (except  as  hereinafter  provided)  to  sell, 
furnish,  dispose  of  or  give  away  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  any  spiritous,  malt, 
or  fermented  liquors  or  wines,  or  any  admixture  thereof,  without  having  the  per- 
mission and  license  therefor,  as  in  this  ordinance  provided. 

SEC.  2.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  receiving  a  license  under  this 
ordinance  shall  place  the  same  so  that  it  shall  at  all  times  be  conspicuous  and  easy 
to  read  at  his  place  of  making  sales. 

SEC.  3.  No  license  issued  under  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall 
be  assignable  or  transferable,  without  the  consent  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  en- 
dorsed thereon,  and  only  to  such  person,  firm  or  corporation  as  shall  have  filed  a 
bond  and  petition  as  hereinafter  provided,  and  complied  in  all  respects  with  the  pre- 
liminary requirements  of  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  4.  No  license  shall  be  issued  to  any  person,  firm  or  corporation,  unless 
he  be  of  good  character,  and  first  make  application  to  the  said  Board  of  Trustees 
for  permission  to  obtain  the  license  herein  required,  and  receive  said  permission. 

The  application  shall  be  verified  by  the  affidavit  of  the  applicant,  and  must 
be  accompanied  by  a  written  recommendation  setting  forth  that  the  applicant  is  of 
good  character,  and  also  the  location  in  said  town  for  which  a  license  is  desired, 
which  recommendation  must  be  signed  and  verified  by  at  least  ten  of  the  heads  of 
families  over  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  residents  within  the  Town  of  Ferndale, 
and  who  have  been  such  residents  for  the  period  of  six  months  immediately  preced- 
ing the  date  of  signing.  Each  person  signing  said  recommendation  must  be  a  free- 
holder in  said  town.  The  "head  of  the  family"  shall  be  such  as  is  defined  in  section 
1261  of  the  Civil  Code  of  the  State  of  California. 

SEC.  5.  Such  applicant  shall,  at  the  time  of  making  application  to  obtain 
a  license,  file  with  the  Town  Clerk  a  bond  to  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  in  the  penal 
sum  of  one  thousand  ($1000.00)  dollars,  with  two  or  more  sureties,  who  shall  be 
residents  of  the  County  of  Humboldt,  and  shall  eaeh  qualify  in  double  the  amount 
of  the  penal  sum  of  the  bond;  said  bond  to  be  approved  by  the  Board  of  Trustees, 
and  conditioned  that  the  said  applicant  shall  conduct  the  business  for  which  the 
license  is  sought  in  a  quiet,  orderly  and  lawful  manner,  and  shall  not  violate  any 
State  law  or  Town  ordinance  upon  the  premises  where  such  business  is  conducted, 
nor  keep  a  disorderly  house,  nor  sell,  give  or  furnish  any  intoxicating  liquors,  wine 
or  beer  to  any  habitual  drunkard,  or  to  any  person  under  the  age  of  eighteen  years, 
or  to  any  person  in  a  state  of  intoxication.  Provided,  that  should  the  said  bond  in 
the  opinion  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  from  any  cause  become  insufficient,  the  Board 
of  Trustees  shall  require  a  new  bond  to  be  given,  to  be  the  same  and  approved  in 
the  same  manner  as  the  first  bond.  If  such  new  bond  is  not  given  within  ten  days 
after  notice  that  it  is  required,  said  license  may  be  revoked. 

SEC.  6.No  license  shall  be  issued  under  this  ordinance  until  the  first  regular 
meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  after  filing  the  said  petition  and  bond,  nor  until 
said  applicant  has  filed  with  the  Town  Clerk  an  affidavit  showing  that  a  notice 
stating  the  name  of  the  applicant,  designating  the  proposed  place  of  business  and 
that  the  petition  and  bond  have  been  filed,  has  been  printed  and  published  in  a 
newspaper  printed  and  published  in  the  said  Town  of  Ferndale,  for  two  weeks  after 
the  filing  of  said  petition  and  bond.  Upon  the  first  regular  meeting  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  after  the  filing  of  said  petition  and  bond,  or  at  any  regular  adjourned 


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meeting  thereafter,  and  after  the  filing  of  said  affidavit  of  publication,  said  Board 
of  Trustees,  if  satisfied  that  this  ordinance  has  been  complied  with,  may  grant  or 
refuse  the  permission  applied  for. 

Upon  sufficient  cause  being  shown  or  proof  furnished  to  the  sai  dBoard  of 
Trustees  that  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  holding  a  license  has*  violated  any 
ordinance  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  relating  to  the  sale  of  liquors,  the  said  Board 
shall,  upon  notice  being  given  to  the  person,  firm  or  corporation  holding  a  license, 
1  evoke  such  permission,  cancel  "the  license,,  and  declare  the  bond  forfeited. 

SEC.  7.  If  the  petition  be  granted  it  shall  remain  in  force  not  more  than 
one  year,  and  be  only  for  the  person,  firm  or  corporation  and  place  named  therein. 
The  license  herein  specified  shall  entitle  the  owner  threof  to  carry  on  the  business 
licensed  at  only  one  place. 

SEC.  8.  The  keeping  of  a  disorderly  or  disreputable  house  or  place,  or  the 
selling  or  giving  of  any  spiritous,  malt  or  fermented  liquors,  or  wine,  or  any  ad- 
mixture thereof,  to  any  intoxicated  person  or  to  any  habitual  drunkard,  or  to  any 
minor  under  the  age  of  eighteen  years,  or  the  violation  of  any  provisions  of  this 
ordinance  by  any  person,  firm  or  corporation  hereby  licensed,  shall  be  deemed  a 
misdemeanor,  and  on  conviction  thereof  in  the  Recorder's  Court  of  said  town,  said 
conviction  shall  work  a  revocation  and  forfeiture  of  the  license,  as  well  as  forfeit- 
ure of  the  bond  given  under  the  said  provisions.  The  Board  of  Trustees  may  at 
any  time  for  such  cause  and  upon  such  investigation  as  they  or  a  majority  of  them 
deem  sufficient,  revoke  any  license  granted  under  this  ordinance,  and  it  is  especially 
ordained  and  declared  that  all  such  licenses,  though  granted  for  a  nominal  term,  are 
held  at  the  pleasure  of  the  said  Board  of  Trustees.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Town 
Marshal  and  all  police  officers  to  prosecute  any  violation  of  this  ordinance. 

SEC.  9.  The  rate  of  license  under  this  ordinance  shall  be  th^  sum  of  Fifty 
($50.00)  dollars  per  quarter,  payable  invariably  in  advance  on  the  first  days  of  Janu- 
ary, April,  July  and  October  of  each  year;  and  the  Town  Marshal  is  hereby  au- 
thorized, empowered  and  required  to  collect  all  license  taxes  provided  for  by  this 
ordinance;  and  he  shall  issue  license  herein  provided  for  only  to  such  person,  firm 
or  corporation  as  have  been  granted  permission  by  the  Board  of  Trustees.  Licenses 
issued  hereunder  shall  be  called  Liquor  Licenses;  provided  that  licenses  may  be 
issued  for  fractional  quarters  when  necessary  to  make  the  regular  issuance  of  the 
same  come  at  the  time  above  specified.  Provided  further,  that  regular  licensed 
and  registered  druggists  shall  not  be  required  to  obtain  licenses  under  the  provis- 
ions of  this  ordinance  for  furnishing  liquors  upon  the  written  prescription  of  a 
regular  licensed  and  registered  physician;  such  liquor  in  no  case  to  be  used  or 
drank  upon  the  premises;  nor  for  supplying  alcohol  or  preparations  containing  the 
same  for  scientific,  mechanical,  or  medicinal  purposes.  Provided  further,  that  no 
spiritous,  vinous  or  malt  liquors  shall  be  sold  or  furnished  more  than  once  on  any 
one  prescription  of  such  physician,  and  that  no  physician  shall  prescribe  any  in- 
toxicating liquors  as  a  beverage  to  a  person  of  known  intemperate  habits. 

SEC.  10.  Any  person  who  shall  violate  any  of  theprovisions  of  this  ordi- 
nance shall  be  deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall 
be  punished  by  a  fine  not  exceeding  three  hundred  dollars  or  by  imprisonment  in 
the  town  jail  not  exceeding  three'  months,  or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

SEC.  11. — Section  Number  33  of  Ordinance  Number  56  of  the  Town  of  Fern- 
dale,  and  all  ordinances  in  conflict  herewith,  is  hereby  repealed. 


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SBC.  12. — This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  and  be  in  force  from  and  after 
its  passage  and  publication. 

Passed  and  adopted  this  2pd  day  of  December,  1901. 

L  P.  BRANSTETTER, 
President  pro  tern  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
W.  H.  ROBARTS,  Town  Clerk. 

Approved  this  2nd  day  of  December,   1901. 
(Seal)  L.  P.  BRANSETTER. 

President  pro  tern  of  the  Boa~d  of  Trustees. 


ORDINANCE-  NO.  82. 

ESTABLISHING  THE  SALARIES  OF  CERTAIN  OFFICERS  OF  THE  TOWN  OF 

FERNDALE. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  salaries  of  the  following  named  officials  of  the  Town  of 
Ferndale  are  hereby  fixed  as  follows, — the  amounts  being  the  monthly  compensa- 
tion for  all  services  rendered  by  the  official  named,  including  all  services  performed 
in  any  office  of  which  he  may  be  ex-officio  the  incumbent: 

The  Town  Clerk  shall  receive  sixteen  and  66  2-3  dollars;  the  Town  Marshal 
shall  receive  twenty  dollars;  the  Superintendent  of  Streets  shall  receive  thirty 
dollars;  the  Poundmaster  shall  receive  five  dollars;  and  the  Sewer  Inspector  shall 
receive  ten  dollars;  salaries  shall  be  paid  monthly  in  arrears  for  the  preceding 
calendar  month. 

SEC.  2.  All  ordinances  and  parts  of  ordinances  in  conflict  herewith  are 
hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  3.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  May  1st,  1902. 

Passed  and  adopted  February  10th,  1902. 

CHAS.  A.  DOE. 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
Attest:  W.  H.  ROBARTS,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  86. 

MAKING  UNLAWFUL  THE  PLACING  OF  GARBAGE,  ETC.,  IN  STREAMS,  ETC., 
AND  PROVIDING  PENALTIES  FOR  VIOLATIONS  THEREOF. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  within  the  limits  of  the 
Town  of  Ferndale,  to  throw,  place,  or  conduct,  or  cause  to  be  thrown,  placed  or 
conducted  into  any  stream,  creek,  or  slough  running  through  any  part  of  said  town, 
or  upon  or  along  the  banks  or  margin  thereof,  any  carrion,  manure,  offal,  filth,  rub- 
bish, garbage,  sewerage,  putrid  or  offensive  matter  whatever,  or  any  obstruction 
of  any  kind. 

SEC.  2.  Any  one  violating  any  of  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance  shall  be 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  conviction  thereof  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine 


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not  exceeding  one  hundred  dollars,  or  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  thirty  days, 
or  by  both  such  fine  and  imprisonment. 

SEC.  3.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

Adopted  August  3,   1903,  by  the  following  vote:    Ayes:      Blum,   Branstetter, 
Brice  and  Putnam.     Noes:    None.     Not  voting:    Doe. 

C.  A.  DOE, 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 
W.  H.  ROBARTS,  Town  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  87. 
RELATIVE  TO  STREET  POLL  TAXES  IN  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  There  is  hereby  levied  and  imposed  on  every  male  inhabitant 
of  the  Town  of  Ferndale,  not  exempt  by  law,  over  the  age  of  21  years  and  under 
the  age1  of  60  years,  except  active  members  of  the  Ferndale  Fire  Department  and 
exempt  firemen  who  have  previously  been  members  of  the  said  Department,  an  an- 
nual street  poll  tax  in  the  sum  of  two  dollars,  which  shall  be  paid  to  the  Town  of 
Ferndale  as  hereinafter  directed. 

SEC.  2.  The  Town  Clerk  must  before  the  first  Monday  of  March  of  each 
year  cause  ito  be  printed  two-dollar  street  poll  tax  receipts  in  book  form,  with 
stubs  numbered  to  correspond  with  the  receipts,  each  book  to  contain  one  hundred, 
and  a  sufficient  number  for  the  use  of  the  Marshal.  The  stubs  shall  have  lines  for 
the  name  of  the  poll  tax  payer,  his  age,  residence,  occupation,  and  by  whom  em- 
ployed. The  Clerk  shall  number  the  said  blanks,  and  shall  make  an  entry  of  the 
whole  number  thereof,  and  of  the  first  and  last  number  placed  thereon,  in  a  book 
kept  by  him  for  that  purpose;  and  he  shall  at  any  time  after  the  first  Monday  of 
March  of  each  year,  upon  demand,  deliver  to  the  Marshal  the  said  blanks  and 
charge  the  Marshal  therewith. 

SEC.  3.  The  said  tax  shall  be  due  and  payable  after  the  first  Monday  of 
March  of  each  year,  and  it  must  be  collected  by  the  Marshal  between  the  first  Mon- 
day of  March  and  the  first  day  of  August  of  each  year.  The  Marshal  must  demand 
payment  of  the  said  street  poll  tax  of  every  person  liable  therefor,  and  on  the  ne- 
glect or  refusal  of  such  person  to  pay  the  sarnie,  he  must  collect  the  same  by  seizure 
and  sale  of  any  personal  property  owned  by  such  person.  The  sale  of  such  person- 
al property  may  be  made  after  three  hours'  verbal  notice  of  the  time  and  place,  and 
the  provisions  of  sections  3791,  3793,  3794,  3795  and  3796  of  the  Political  Code  are 
made  applicable  to  such  seizure  and  sale. 

SEC.  4.  The  Marshal  must  deliver  the  street  poll  tax  receipt,  filled  out  with 
the  person's  name  owing  the  taxes,  to  the  purchaser  of  property  at  any  sale.  In 
other  cases  he  must  deliver  it  filled  out  in  like  manner  to  the  person  paying  the 
tax.  The  receipt  so  delivered  is  the  only  evidence  of  the  payment  of  the  said  street 
poll  tax. 

SEC.  5.  If  any  street  poll  tax  due  in  any  year  is  not  paid  before  the  first 
day  of  August  of  each  year,  the  Marshal  must  add  the  sum  of  fifty  cents  thereto, 
and  collect  said  tax,  with  said  penalty  of  fifty  cents  added  thereto,  between  the 
first  day  of  August  and  the  last  Monday  of  November  of  each  year. 

SEC.  6.  The  Marshal  must  keep  a  roll  of  the  names  and  local  residence,  or 
place  of  business,  of  all  persons  subject  to  or  liable  for  poll  tax.  and  if  paid,  date 


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and  amount  of  each  payment;  and  if  not  paid,  cause  of  non-payment;  provided,  that 
no  person  shall  be  returned  as  delinquent  unless  a  demand  has  been  made  upon 
him  in  person  or  through  the  postofflpe.  On  the  day  following  the  last  Monday  of 
November  of  •each  year,  he  must  deliver  the  said  street  poll  tax  roll  to  the  Clerk, 
and  must  also  at  the  same  time  return  to  the  Clerk  all  street  poll  tax  receipts  re- 
ceived by  him  and  not  used,  and  pay  to  the  Treasurer  the  total  amount  collected 
and  not  before  paid  in,  and  he  must  make  a  final  settlement  with  the  Town  Clerk 
therefor. 

SEC.  7.  Every  person,  firm,  or  corporation  indebted  to  any  one  who  neglects 
or  refuses  after  demand  to  pay  a  street  poll  tax  becomes  liable  therefor,  and  must 
pay  the  same  for  such  other  person  after  service  upon  him  by  the  Marshal  of  a 
notice  in  writing  stating  the  name  of  such  person. 

SEC.  8.  Every  person,  firm  or  corporation  paying  'the  street  poll  tax  of  an- 
other may  deduct  the  amount  of  the  same  from  any  indebtedness  to  such  person. 

SEC.  9.  If  any  person  assessed  for  a  property  tax  in  the  Town  of  Femdale 
has  not  paid  to  the  Marshall  the  street  poll  tax  due  from  him  or  for  which  he  is 
liable,  said  street  poll  'tax,  on  the  day  following  the  last  Monday  of  November  of 
each  year,  becomes  a  lien  upon  the  property  assessed  to  such  person  to  attach  from 
the  first  Monday  of  the  preceding  March  of  each  year,  and  must  be  collected  in 
the  same  manner  and  at  the  same  time  that  delinquent  'taxes  are  collected. 

SEC.  10.  Ordinance  No.  13  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  is  hereby  repealed; 
provided,  that  all  acts  done  under  said  ordinance  shall  be  preserved  and  continued 
under  this  ordinance. 

SEC.   11.     This  ordinance   shall   take  effect  immediately. 

SEC.  12.  The  Town  Clerk  shall  cause  copies  of  this  ordinance  to  be  posted 
in  three  public  places  in  'the  Town  of  Ferndale,  and  notwithstanding  the  provisions 
of  Ordinance  No.  27,  no  other  notice  of  its  passage  shall  be  required. 

Passed  and  adopted  June  27,  A.  D.  1904,  by  the  following  vote:  Ayes:  H.  C. 
Blum,  G.  M.  Brice,  A.  Putnam,  and  C.  A.  Doe.  Noes:  None.  Absent:  L.  P.  Bran- 
stetter. 

C.  A.   DOE, 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 
G.  W.  DUNGAN,  Town  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  88. 

PROVIDING  FOR  THE  ASSESSMENT,    LEVY,   AND   COLLECTION  OF  TAXES 
IN  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  Between  the  first  Mondays  of  March  and  July  of  each  year 
the  Town  Assessor  shall  ascertain  the  names  of  all  taxable  inhabitants  and  all 
property  within  the  Town,  of  Ferndale  subject  to  taxation  by  the  Town,  and  must 
assess  such  property  to  the  persons  by  whom  it  was  owned  or  claimed,  or  in  whose 
possession  or  control  it  was,  at  twelve  o'clock  M,  of  said  first  Monday  of  March; 
but  no  mistake  in  the  name  of  the  owner,  or  supposed  owner,  of  property  shall 
render  the  assessment  thereof  invalid.  In  assessing  solvent  credits  not  secured  by 
mortgage  or  trust  deed,  a  reduction  therefrom  shall  be  made  of  debts  due  to  bona 
fide   residents  of  this  State.     Said  Assessor  shall   proceed   in  the  same  manner  as 


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provided  for  the  action  of  County  Assessors  by  Chapter  III  of  Title  IX  of  Part  III 
of  the  Political  Code  of  the  State  of  California,  so  far  as  applicable;  and  he  must 
prepare  an  Assessment  Book  of  persons  and  property  subject  to  taxation,  with  ap- 
propriate headings,  alphabetically  arranged,  in  which  must  be  listed  all  property 
within  'the  town,  and  in  which  must  be  specified,  in  separate  columns,  under  the 
appropriate  head,  the  several  matters  and  things  respecting  the  town  assessment 
substantially  as  required  by  Section  3650  of  the  Political  Code  of  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia, respecting  assessments  for  State  and  County  purposes;  and  he  must  sign 
and  certify  said  Assessment  Book,  and  take  and  subscribe  an  affidavit  therein  sub- 
stantially in  the  form  required  of  County  Assessors  by  Section  3652  of  the  Political 
Code. 

SEC.  2.  The  Town  Assessor  must  make  the  abstract  provided  for  in  Section 
3678  of  the  Political  Code;  but  when  such  abstract  or  list  be  found  to  contain  any 
instrument  relating  to  lands  situated  part  within  and  part  without  the  town,  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Assessor  to  determine  the  proportion  of  the  valuation  of 
the  property  described  in  such  instrument  to  be  assessed  in  the  town  and  assess 
the  same  accordingly. 

SEC.  3.  Every  tax  due  on  personal  property  is  a  lien  upon  the  real  property 
of  the  owner  thereof;  every  tax  due  upon  real  property  is  a  lien  upon  the  property 
assessed;  and  every  tax  due  upon  improvements  on  real  estate  assessed  to  other 
than  the  owner  of  the  real  estate  is  a  lien  upon  the  land  and  the  improvements; 
and  each  said  several  lien  attaches  as  of  the  first  Monday  of  March  of  each  year 
at  twelve  o'clock  M. 

SEC.  4.  The  Town  Assessor  must  collect  the  taxes  on  all  personal  property 
when,  in  his  opinion,  said  taxes  are  not  a  lien  upon  real  property  sufficient  to  se- 
cure the  payment  of  the  taxes.  H)e  shall  pay  into  'the  Treasury,  monthly,  on  the 
first  Monday  of  each  month,  all  personal  property  taxes  collected  by  him,  and  in 
his  hands,  for  any  preceding  month  or  time,  and  make  settlement  therefor  with  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Town,  taking  his  receipt  for  the  moneys  so  paid.  The  Assessor 
shall  be  governed  as  to  the  amount  of  taxes  to  be  by  him  collected  on  personal 
property  by  the  Town  tax  rate  of  the  preceding  year. 

SEC.  6.  On  or  before  the  first  Monday  of  Mlarch  of  each  year,  the  Board 
of  Trustees  must  furnish  the  Town  Assessor  with  blank  forms  of  statements  sub- 
stantially the  same  as  provided  for  by  Section  3530  of  the  Political  Code  of  the 
State  of  California.  The  statement  must  be  filled  out,  signed,  and  returned  to  the 
Assessor  by  the  taxpayers  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  in  the  same  manner  that  such 
statements  are  required  from  County  Assessors,  so  far  as  the  said  laws  governing" 
such  matters  are  applicable. 

SEC.  6.  The  said  Assessment  Book  must  be  completed  by  the  said  Assessor 
between  the  first  day  of  May  and  the  first  day  of  August  of  each  year.  Said  As- 
sessment Book  shall  be  verified  by  the  Town  Assessor  by  his  oath,  and  shall  be  de- 
posited with  'the  Town  Clerk  on  or  before  the  first  Monday  of  August  of  each  year. 
The  Assessor  shall,  between  the  first  day  of  May  and  the  first  Monday  of  August 
of  each  year,  also  make  a  list  of  all  male  persons  residing  within  the  limits  of  the 
town  of  Ferndale  over  the  age  of  21  years,  and  shall  verify  said  list  by  his  oath, 
and  shall  on  or  before  the  first  Monday  of  August  of  each  year  deposit  the  same  with 
the  Town  Clerk. 

On  the  first  Monday  of  August  of  each  year  the  Town  Clerk  must  give  no- 
tice by  publication  in  some  newspaper  published  in  said  Town  of  Ferndale  that  the 
Board  of  Trustees  will  meet  to  equalize  the  assessments  in  said  Assessment  Book 
at  their  usual  place  of  holding  meetings  on  the  second  Monday  of  August  at  ten 


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o'clock  A-  MM  of  said  day,  and  sit  as  a  Board  of  Equalization,  and  continue  in 
session  from  day  to  day  until  all  the  returns  of  the  Assessor  have  been  verified. 
The  Assessment  Book  shall  in  the  meantime  remain  open  for  public  inspection. 

SEC.  7.  If  the  Town  Clerk,  as  Town  Assessor,  shall  fail  to  complete  and  de- 
liver the  Assessment  Book  within  the  time  hereinbefore  specified,  he  shall  forfeit 
to  the  town  the  sum  of  Five  Hundred  Dollars,  and  any  other  damages  the  town  may 
sustain  by  reason  of  such  failure,  and  he  is  also  liable  to  the  town  for  all  taxes  on 
property  within  the  town,  which,  through  his  failure  or  neglect,  may  at  any  time 
be  unassessed;  and  he  is  also  liable  to  the  town  for  all  taxes  on  personal  property 
within  the  town,  which,  through  his  failure  or  neglect,  have  not  been  collected;  and 
recovery  for  such  penalty,  damages,  and  loss  of  taxes,  or  either  or  any  of  such  mat- 
ters, may  be  had  by  the  town  upon  his  official  bond. 

SEC.  8.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  meet  at  their  usual  place  of  holding 
meetings  on  the  second  Monday  of  August  of  each  year,  at  ten  o'clock  in  the  fore- 
noon of  said  day,  and  sit  as  a  Board  of  Equalization;  and  shall  continue  in  session 
from  day  to  day,  until  all  the  returns  of  the  Assessor  have  been  rectified.  They  shall 
have  power  'to  hear  complaints,  and  to  correct,  modify,  or  strike  out  any  assessment 
made  by  the  Assessor;  and  may,  of  their  own  motion,  raise  any  assessment,  upon 
notice  to  the  party  whose  assessment  is  to  be  raised.  They  shall  be  governed  by 
the  provisions  of  Chapter  IV.  of  Title  IX  of  Part  III  of  the  Political  Code.relating  to 
the   equalization   of  taxes,  so   far   as  applicable. 

SEC.  9.  The  Town  Clerk  shall  be  the  Clerk  of  the  Board  of  Equalization, 
and  as  such  must  record  in  a  book  to  be  kept  for  that  purpose  all  changes,  correct- 
ions, and  orders  made  by  the  Board;  and  during  the  sessions  of  the  Board,  or  as  soon 
as  possible  after  its  adjournment,  must  enter  upon  the  Assessment  Book  all  changes 
and  corrections  in  the  Assessment  Book,  must  take  and  subscribe  an  affidavit  in  such 
Assessment  Book  in  the  same  form  required  of  County  Clerks  by  Section  3682  of 
the  Political  Code  of  California. 

SEC.  10.  The  Board  of  Trustees  must,  on  the  first  Monday  of  September  of 
each  year,  fix  the  rate  of  town  taxes,  designating  the  number  of  cents  on  each  hun- 
dred dollars  of  property  levied  for  each  fund;  and  must  then  levy  the  town  taxes 
upon  the  taxable  property  in  the  town. 

SEC.  11.  When  the  assessments  have  been  equalized  and  the  corrections 
made,  and  the  tax  levied  as  aforesaid,  the  Clerk  must  enter  in  said  Assessment  Book, 
in  a  separate  money  column,  the  respective  sums,  in  dollars  and  cents,  so  levied  on 
each  one  hundred  dollars  valuation  of  taxable  property  (rejecting  the  fractions  of  a 
cent)  to  be  paid  as  a  tax  levied  on  the  property  enumerated,  and  foot  up  the  column 
showing  the  total  value  of  property  in  the  town  as  corrected  under  the  direction  of 
the  Board  of  Equalization,  and  the  total  amount  of  taxes;  provided  that  the  whole 
amount  of  taxes  shall  be  shown  and  that  there  shall  be  no  installments;  the  said 
computation  and  work  of  said  Town  Clerk  to  be  done  and  completed  on  or  before 
the  first  Monday  of  October  of  each  year. 

SEC.  12.  On  or  before  the  first  Monday  of  October  of  each  year,  the  Town 
Clerk  shall  deliver  the  said  assessment  roll  to  the  Tax  Collector  of  the  town,  who 
must  publish  immediately  a  notice  in  some  newspaper  published  in  said  town,  spec- 
ifying therein: 

1.  That  the  taxes  on  all  personal  property  secured  by  real  property  and  the 
taxes  on  all  real  property  will  be  due  and  payable  on  >the  third  Monday  of  October, 
and  will  be  delinquent  on  the  last  Monday  in  November  next  thereafter  at  six  o'clock 
P.  M.,  and  that  unless  paid  prior  thereto,  fifteen  per  cent  will  be  added  to  the 
amount  thereof. 


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2.  The  times  and  places  at  which  payment  of  taxes  may  be  made — The  above 
notice  shall  be  published  by  the  Tax  Collector  for  the  period  of  four  weeks.  On  re- 
ceiving the  assessment  roll,  the  Tax  Collector  shall  be  charged  by  the  Clerk  with  the 
full  amount  of  taxes  levied  chargeable  to  him. 

SEC.  12.  The  Tax  Collecter  must  mark  the  date  on  the  payment  of  any 
taxes,  on  the  assessment  roll  opposite  the  name  of  the  person  paying.  He  must 
also  give  a  receipt  to  the  person  paying  any  taxes  specifying  the  amount  of  the 
assessment,  and  the  taxes  paid,  with  a  description  of  the  property  assessed. 

SEC.  14.  On  the  last  Monday  of  November  of  each  year,  at  six  o'clock  P.  M., 
all  taxes  then  unpaid  are  delinquent,  and  thereafter  the  Tax  Collector  must  collect 
for  the  use  of  the  town  an  addition  of  fifteen  per  cent  thereon,  provided,  that  the 
taxes  on  all  personal  property,  unsecured  by  real  property,  shall  be  due  and  pay- 
able immediately  after  the  assessment  of  said  personal  property  is  made. 

SEC.  15.  On  the  first  Monday  of  December  of  each  year,  the  Town  Tax  Col- 
lector must  attend  at  the  office  of  the  Town  Clerk  with  the  assessment  books,  hav- 
ing all  items  of  taxes  collected  market  thereon  "Paid"  and  at  the  same  time  he 
shall  deliver  to  the  Clerk  a  complete  delinquent  list  of  all  persons  and  property 
then  owing  town  taxes.  The  Clerk  shall  thereupon  compute  and  enter  against  him 
the  items  of  taxes  due  and  unpaid,  the  penalty  of  fifteen  per  cent  for  delinquency, 
foot  up  the  total  amount  of  taxes  due  on  the  delinquent  tax  list,  with  the  penalty 
or  penalties  added  thereto,  and  charge  the  Tax  Collector  with  the  amount  thereof, 
and  within  one  week  thereafter,  deliver  the  said  list,  duly  certified,  to  such  Tax 
Collector. 

SEC.  16.  Within  one  week  after  the  second  Monday  of  December  of  each 
year,  the  Tax  Collector  must  notify  all  persons,  by  mail,  when  their  post  office  ad- 
dress is  known  to  him,  that  their  taxes  have  become  delinquent,  the  amount  of 
said  taxes,  and  that  the  property  on  which  said  taxes  are  assessed  will  be  sold 
unless  paid  prior  to  five  o'clock  P.  M.,  of  the  first  Monday  of  February  after  said 
notice. 

SEC.  17.  On  or  within  five  days  before  or  after  the  first  Monday  in  January 
of  each  year,  the  Tax  Collector  must  publish  the  delinquent  list,  which  must  contain 
the  names  of  the  persons  and  a  description  of  the  property  delinquent,  and  the 
amount  of  the  taxes  and  costs  due,  opposite  each  name  and  description,  with  the 
taxes  due  on  personal  property  added  to  taxes  on  real  estate,  where  the  real  estate 
is  liable  therefor,  or  the  several  taxes  are  due  from  the  same  person,  the  expense 
of  the  publication  to  be  charged  against  the  town;  and  the  Tax  Collector  must  ap- 
pend to,  and  publish  with,  the  said  delinquent  list  a  notice  that  unless  the  taxes  de- 
linquent, together  with  the  costs  and  percentage,  are  paid,  the  real  property  upon 
which  such  taxes  are  a  lien  will  be  sold.  The  publication  must  be  made  once  a 
week  for  three  successive  weeks,  in  some  newspaper,  or  supplment  thereto,  publish- 
ed in  the  town,  and  must  designate  the  time  and  place  of  sale,  which  time  of  sale 
must  be  more  than  twenty  eight  days  from  the  first  publication,  and  the  place  must 
be  in  the  Tax  Collector's  office  in  said  town. 

If  the  Board  of  Trustees  cannot  obtain  the  publication  of  said  delinquent  list 
for  a  reasonable  sum,  they  may  then  order  the  notice  of  the  delinquent  list  to  be 
given  by  posting  a  copy  thereof  in  three  public  places  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.  18.  The  Tax  Collector,  as  soon  as  he  has  made  the  aforesaid  publi- 
cation, must  file  with  the  Town  Clerk  a  copy  of  the  publication,  with  an  affidavit 
attached  thereto,  that  it  is  a  true  copy  of  the  same,  and  that  the  publication  was 
made  in  a  newspaper  or  supplement  thereto,  stating  its  name  and  place  of  publi- 


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cation,  and  the  date  of  each  appearance,  which  affidavit  is  primary  evidence  of  all 
the   facts   stated   therein. 

SBC.  19.  The  Tax  Collector  must  collect,  in  addition  to  the  taxes  due  on  the 
delinquent  list,  fifty  cents  on  each  lot,  piece  or  tract  of  land  separately  assessed,  and 
on  each  assessment  of  personal  property. 

SEC.  20.  On  the  day  fixed  for  the  sale,  at  five  o'clock  P.  M.,  thereof,  all 
the  property  delinquent  upon  which  the  taxes  of  all  kinds,  penalties  and  costs  have 
not  been  paid  shall,  by  operation  of  law  and  the  declaration  of  the  Tax  Collector,  be 
sold  to  the  town,  and  said  Tax  Collector  shall  make  an  entry  "Sold  to  the  Town" 
on  the  delinquent  assessment  list  opposite  the  taxes  and  he  shall  be  credited  with 
the  amount  thereof  in  his  settlement  with  the  Clerk  as  hereinafter  provided. 

SEC.  21.  The  Board  of  Trustees  may  at  any  time  after  the  delinquent  list 
has  been  delivered  to  the  Tax  Collector,  direct  him  no»t  to  proceed  with  the  sale 
of  any  property  on  said  list  whereon  the  taxes  shall  amount  to  twenty  dollars  or 
more.  Upon  such  direction  the  Tax  Collector  must  make  out  and  deliver  to  the  Clerk 
a  certified  copy  of  the  entries  upon  the  delinquent  list  relative  to  such  taxes.  The 
Board  of  Trustees  shall  thereupon  direct  suit  to  be  brought  against  the  delinquent 
in  the  proper  court  in  the  name  of  the  town  of  Ferndale  and  enforce  such  collection. 

SEC.  22.  The  Tax  Collector  must  make  out  a  certificate  of  delinquent  tax 
sale  for  each  piece  or  tract  of  land  sold,  dated  in  the  day  of  the  sale,  stating  (when 
known)  the  name  of  the  person  assessed,  a  description  of  the  land  sold,  that  it  was 
sold  for  delinquent  taxes  to  the  town,  and  giving  the  amount  and  year  of  the  assess- 
ment, and  specifying  when  the  town  will  be  entitled  to  a  deed. 

SEC.  23.  Such  certificate  must  be  signed  by  the  Tax  Collector  and  be  by 
him  recorded  in  a  book  which  shall  contain  a  record  of  every  certificate  of  sale  made 
by  him  to  the  town  for  real  estate  sold  for  delinquent  taxes,  which  book  must  be 
properly  indexed,  shall  be  kept  in  the  office  of  the  Tax  Collector  and  shall  be  at  all 
times  subject  to  public  inspection.  The  form  of  such  certificate  of  sale  and  record 
book  shall  correspond  as  nearly  as  may  be  with  the  form  prescribed  by  the  State 
Comptroller  for  State  and  County  use.  In  case  of  a  redemption  or  a  subsequent  sale 
of  any  of  said  property  by  the  town,  the  Tax  Collector  must  enter  upon  the  margin 
of  the  certificate,  as  recorded  in  such  books,  the  fact  of  such  redemption  of  sale, 
giving  the  date  thereof,  and  by  whom  redeemed. 

SEC.  24.  The  redemption  of  the  property  sold  may  be  made  by  the  owner 
or  any  party  in  interest  within  five  years  from  the  date  of  the  sale  to  the  town  in 
•the  manner  provided  by  sections  3817  and  3818  of  the  Political  Code,  so  far  as  the 
same  may  be  applicable  to  the  town.  When  the  property  is  not  redeemed  within 
the  time  allowed  by  law  for  its  redemption,  the  Tax  Collector,  or  his  successor  in 
offiice,  must  make  the  town  a  deed  of  the  property  as  provided  by  section  3735  of  the 
Political  Code.  All  such  deed  shall  be  recorded  by  the  Town  Tax  Collector  in' a  book 
to  be  kept  by  him  in  his  office  and  also  in  the  Recorder's  office  of  Humboldt  County, 
California.  The  Board  of  Trustees  shall  prescribe  the  form  of  all  such  deeds  and 
record  book.  The  Tax  Collector  shall,  upon  the  application  of  'the  person  desiring 
to  redeem  ony  property  sold  for  delinquent  taxes,  make  an  estimate  of  the  amount 
to  be  paid,  and  shall  give  him  triplicate  receipts  of  the  amount  specifying  the  sev- 
eral amounts  thereof,  which  certificate  shall  be  delivered  to  the  Town  Treasurer, 
together  with  the  money  and  the  Town  Treasurer  shall  give  triplicate  receipts  for 
said  money  written  or  endorsed  on  said  certificate  to  the  redemptioner,  who  shall 
deliver  two  of  the  said  receipts  to  the  Tax  Collector  taking  his  receipt  therefor.  The 
Tax  Collector  shall  forthwith  file  one  of  said  certificates  with  his  indorsement  and 
the  day  of  receiving  it  written  thereon,  in  -the  office  of  the  Town  Clerk.     Upon  re- 


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ceiving  said  certificate,  the  Town  Clerk  shall  charge  the  Treasurer  with  the  amount 
specified  therein.  Upon  the  payment  of  said  money  and  the  feturn  of  said  certi- 
ficate and  Treasurer's  receipt  to  the  Tax  Collector,  any  certificate  of  sale  that  may 
have  been  made  to  the  town  shall  become  vacated  thereby,  and  all  right,  title  and 
interest  acquired  by  the  town  under  and  by  virtue  of  the  tax  sale  shall  cease  and 
determine. 

SEC.  25.  In  the  collection  of  taxes  on  personal  property,  the  Assessor  may, 
at  the  time  of  making  the  assessment,  or  at  any  time  before  the  first  Monday  of 
October,  collect  the  taxes  by  seizure  and  sale  of  any  personal  property  owned  by  the 
person  against  whom  the  tax  is  assessed.  In  case  of  failure  to  pay  the  tax  on  per- 
sonal property  on  demand,  it  is  made  the  duty  of  the  Assessor  to  resort  to  such  seiz- 
ure and  sale  to  collect  the  tax  due.  After  the  first  Monday  of  October,  the  powers 
and  duties  respecting  the  collection  of  taxes  on  personal  property,  conferred  and 
imposed  by  this  section  on  the  Assessor,  are  hereby  conferred  and  imposed  on  the 
Tax  Collector.  The  provisions  of  sections  3791,  3792,  3793,  3794,  3795  and  3796  of  the 
Political  Code  apply  to  such  seizure  and  sale. 

SEC.  26.     The  Tax  Collector  must,  on  the  first  Monday  of  February  of  each 

year,  attend  at  the  office  of  the  Town  Clerk  with  the  delinquent  list,  with  all  items 

of  taxes  collected  marked  "paid"  thereon,  and  the  said  Clerk  must  then  carefully 

compare  the  list  with  the  assessment  of  persons  and  property  not  marked  "paid" 

< 
on  the  assessment  book,  and  when  the  taxes  have  been  paid,  must  note  the  fact 

in  the  proper  column  in  the  assessment  book.     The  Clerk  must  then  foot  up  the 

amount  of  taxes  unpaid  and  credit  the  Tax  Collector  with   the  amount,   and  have 

a  settlement  with  him,  and  the  delinquent   list  must  thereafter  remain   on   file  in 

the  Clerk's  office.    The  same  day  the  Tax  Collector  must  make  an  affidavit  endorsed 

on  the  delinquent  list  that  the  taxes  not  marked  "paid"  thereon  have  not  been  paid. 

SEC.  27.  Any  taxes,  per  centum,  and  costs  erroneously  collected,  may,  by 
order  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  be  refunded  by  the  Town  Treasurer.  In  the  col- 
lection of  taxes  on  personal  property,  if  it  appears,  after  the  rate  is  fixed  for  the 
year  in  which  such  collection  is  made,  that  a  sum  in  excess  of  the  rate  has  been 
collected,  the  excess  must  be  repaid  to  the  person  from  whom  the  collection  was 
made,  Or  to  his  assignee.  If  a  sum  less  than  the  rate  has  been  collected,  the  de- 
ficiency must  be  collected  as  other  taxes  on  personal  property  are  collected. 

SEC.  28.  When  the  Tax  Collector  discovers  that  any  property  has  been  as- 
sessed more  than  cnce  for  the  same  year,  he  must  collect  only  the  tax  justly  due 
and  make  a  return  of  the  facts  under  oath  to  the  Town  Clerk. 

SEC.  29.  If  the  Tax  Collector  discovers  befoTe  the  sale  that  on  account  of 
irregular  assessment  or  any  other  error  any  property  ought  not  to  be  sold,  he  must 
not  sell  the  same,  and  the  Board  of  Trustees  must  cause  the  Assessor  to  enter  the 
uncollected  taxes  upon  the  assessment  books  of  the  next  succeeding  year  to  be 
collected  as  other   taxes  entered   threon. 

SEC.  30.  When  land  is  sold  for  taxes  correctly  imposed  as  the  property  of  a 
particular  person,  no  misnomer  of  the  owner  or  mistake  relating  to  the  ownership 
thereof  shall  affect  the  sale  or  render  it  void  or  voidable. 

SEC.  31.  The  Town  Tax  Collector  shall  pay  over  to  the  Town  Treasurer  on 
Monday  of  every  week  all  taxes  collected  during  the  preceding  week. 

SEC.  32.  Ordinances  Nos.  12,  14*  and  41,  relating  to  taxation  in  the  Town  of 
Ferndale,  are  hereby  repealed;  provided,  that  all  taxes  due  thereunder,  and  all 
rights  of  the  Town  for  the  collection  of  the  same  are  hereby  preserved,  and  said 


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Ordinances  shall  continue  in  force  for  the  purpose  of  enforcing  the  rights  of  the 
Town  of  Ferndale  ad  to  taxes  and  obligations  arising  thereunder. 

SEC.  33.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  upon  its  final  passage. 

SEC.  34.  The  Town  Clerk  shall  cause  copies  of  this  Ordinance  to  be  posted 
in  three  of  the  most  public  places  in  the  Town  of  Ferndale  and  notwithstanding  the 
provisions  of  Ordinance  No.  27,  no  other  notice  of  its  passage  shall  be  required. 

Passed  and  adopted  the  27th  day  of  June,  A.  D.,  1904,  by  the  following  vote: 

Ayes:   H.  C.  Blum,  G.  M.  Brice,  A.  Putnam  and  C.  A.  Doe. 

Noes:  None. 

Absent:   L.  P.  Branstetter. 

C.   A.   DOE, 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 
G.  W.  DUNGAN,  Town   Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  89. 
RELATING   TO   THE   SEAL    OF  THE   TOWN    OF  FERNDALE. 
The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  seal  heretofore  used  by  and  for  the.  Town  of  Ferndale 
(the  inscription  on  which,  in  the  center  thereof,  is  "INCORPORATED"  and  around 
the  outer  edge  of  said  seal,  "TOWN  OF  FERNDALE,  1893")  shall  be  and  is  hereby 
established  and  declared  to  have  been  and  now  to  be  the  seal  of  the  said  town  of 
Ferndale. 

SEC.   2.     Ordinance   No.   8%    is  hereby   repealed. 

SEC.   3.     This  ordinance  shall   take   effect   immediately. 

Passed  and  adopted  the  27th  day  of  June,  A.  D.  1904,  by  the  following  vote: 

Ayes:     H.  C.  Blum,  G.  M.  Brice,  A.  Putnam  and  C.  A.  Doe. 

Noes:     None. 

Absent:     L.  P.  Branstetter. 

C.  A.   DOE, 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town   of  Ferndale. 
G.  W.  DUNGAN,  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  90. 

PROVIDING  FOR  THE  ESTABLISHMENT  AND  MAINTENANCE  OF  A  PUBLIC 
LIBRARY  IN  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  In  accordance  with  and  under  the  provisions  of  an  act  of  the 
State  of  California  entitled  "An  Act  to  provide  for  the  establishment  and  mainten- 
ance of  public  libraries  within  municipalities,"  approved  March  23,  1901,  a  public 
library  is  hereby  established  in  and  for  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 

SEC.  2.  The  Board  of  Town  Trustees  shall,  at  the  time  of  their  regular 
monthly  meeting  in  July,  1904,  appoint  a  Board  of  Library  Trustees  consisting  of  five 
members,  who  shall  hold  office  for  three  years;  provided,  that  the  members  of  the 
first  board  shall  so  classify  themselves  by  lot  that  one  of  their  number  shall  go  out 
of  office  at  the  end  of  the  current  fiscal  year,  two  at  the  end  of  one  year  thereafter 
and  the  other  two  at  the  end  of  two  years   thereafter.     Men  and  women  shall  be 


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equally  elligible  to  such  appointment  and  vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  appointment 
for  the  unexpired  term  in  the  same  manner.  The  Board  of  Library  Trustees  shall 
hold  office  and  have  the  powers  and  duties  provided  for  in  the  above  named  act. 
The  regular  time  of  appointment  of  members  of  this  board  shall  be  at  the  first 
regular  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Town  Trustees  in  June  of  each  year. 

SEC.  3.  The  Board  of  Town  Trustees  must  a>t  the  time  of  fixing  the  rate 
of  town  taxes,  fix  the  rate  of  tax  necessary  for  the  maintenance  of  the  library  for 
one  year  from  the  first  day  of  November  next  succeeding,  and  must  then  levy  such 
tax  as  other  taxes  are  levied.  The  revenue  derived  from  said  tax  shall  be  appor- 
tioned <to  a  fund  to  be  designated  the  library  fund,  and  shall  be  used  exclusively  for 
library  purposes. 

SEC.  4.    This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  on  the  first  day  of  July,  1904. 

Passed  and  adopted  the  27th  day  of  June,  A.  D.,  1904,  by  the  following  vote: 

Ayes:  H.  C.  Blum,  G.  M.  Brice,  A.  Putnam  and  C.  A.  Doe! 

Noes:  None. 

Absent:   D.  P.  Branstetter. 

C.  A.  DOE, 
President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 
G.  W.  DUNGAN,  Town  Clerk. 


ORDINANCE  NO.  91. 

REPEALING  ORDINANCES  NUMBERED  3,  7,   16,   18,  30,  34,  42,   55,   60,  61,  71  76 
83  and  85  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  FERNDALE. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.     Ordinances  numbered  3,  7,  16,  18,  30,  34,  42,  55,  60,  61,  71  76  83 

and  85  of  the  Town  of  Ferndale  are  hereby  repealed. 

SEC.  2.     This  ordinance  shall  take  effect  immediately. 

Passed  and  adopted  the  19th  day  of  September  1904,  by  the  following  vote: 

Ayes:  G.  M.  Brice,  H.  C.  Blum,  L.  P.  Branstetter  arid  A.  Putnam. 

Noes:  None. 

Absent:  C.  A.  Doe. 

A.  PUTNAM. 
President  Pro  Tern  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

G.  W.  DUNGAN,  Town  Clerk. 


APPENDIX 


AN  ACT 

TO  PROVIDE  FOR  THE  ESTABLISHMENT  AND  MAINTENANCE  OF  PUBLIC 
LIBRARIES  WITHIN  MUNICIPALITIES 

(Approved  March  23,  1901.) 

The  People  of  the  State  of  California,  represented  in  Senate  and  Assembly, 
do  enact  as  follows: 

SECTION  1.  The  Common  Council,  Board  of  Trustees,  or  other  legislative 
body  of  any  incorporated  city  or  town  in  the  State  of  California,  may,  and  upon 
being  requested  to  do  so  by  one-fourth  of  the  electors  of  such  municipal  corpora- 
tion in  the  manner  hereinafter  provided,  must,  by  Ordinance,  establish  in  and  for 
said  municipality  a  public  library;  provided,  there  be  none  already  established 
therein. 

SEC.  2  The  request  referred  to  in  the  preceding  section  may  be  by  a  single 
petition,  or  by  several  petitions;  provided,  that  such  several  petitions  be  substan- 
tially in  'the  same  form,  and  that  such  single  petition  has,  or  such  several  petitions 
in  the  aggregate  have,  the  signatures  of  the  requisite  number  of  electors. 

SEC.  3.  Such  public  library  shall  be  managed  by  a  board  designated  as  the 
Board  of  Library  Trustees,  consisting  of  five  members,  to  be  appointed  by  the 
Mayor,  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  or  other  executive  head  of  the  muni- 
cipality, by  and  with  the  consent  of  the  legislative  body  of  said  municipality.  Such 
trustees  shall  severally  hold  office  for  three  years,  serving  without  compensation; 
provided  that  the  members  of  the  first  board  appointed  shall  so  classify  themselves 
by  lot  that  one  of  their  number  shall  go  out  of  office  at  the  end  of  the  current  fiscal 
year,  two  at  the  end  of  one  year  thereafter,  and  the  other  two  at  the  end  of  two 
years  thereafter.  Men  and  women  shall  be  equally  eligile  to  such  appointmnt, 
and  vacancies  shall  be  filled  by  appointment  for  the  unexpired  term  in  the  same 
manner. 

SEC.  4.  Boards  of  Library  Trustees  shall  meet  at  least  once  a  month  at 
such  times  and  places  as  they  may  fix  by  resolution.  Special  meetings  may  be 
called  at  any  time  by  three  trustees,  by  written  notice  served  upon  each  member 
at  least  three  hours  before  the  time  specified  for  the  proposed  meeting.  A  majority 
of  the  board  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  the  transaction  of  business.  Such  boards 
shall  appoint  one  of  their  number  president,  who  shall  serve  for  one  year  and  until 
his  successor  is  appointed,  and  in  his  absence  shall  elect  a  president  pro  tern.  Such 
boards  shall  cause  a  proper  record  of  their  proceedings  to  be  kept. 

SEC.  5.     Boards  of  Library  Trustees  shall  have  power: 

First:  To  make  and  enforce  all  rules,  regulations  and  by-laws  necessary 
for  the  administration,  government  and  protection  of  the  libraries  under  their  man- 
agement and  all  property  belonging  thereto. 

Second:  To  administer  any  trust  declared  or  created  for  such  libraries,  and 
receive  by  gift,  devise  or  bequest  and  hold  in  trust  or  otherwise,  property  situated 
in  this  State  or  elsewhere,  and  where  not  otherwise  provided,  dispose  of  the  same 
for  the  benefit  of  such  libraries. 

Third:  To  prescribe  the  duties  and  powers  of  the  librarian,  secretary  and 
other  officers  and  employes  of  any  such  libraries;   to  determine  the  number  of  and 


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appoint  all  such  officers  and  employes,  and  fix  their  compensation,  which  said 
officers  and  employes  shall  hold  their  offices  or  positions  at  the  pleasure  of  said 
boards. 

Fourth:  To  purchase  necessary  books,  journals,  publications  and  other 
personal  property. 

Fifth:  To  purchase  such  real  property,  and  erect,  or  rent  and  equip,  such 
building'  or  buildings,  room  or  rooms,  as  may  be  necessary,  when  in  their  judgment 
a  suitable  building,  or  portion  thereof,  has  not  been  provided  by  the  legislative  body 
of  the  municipality  for  such  libraries. 

Sixth:  To  require  the  Secretary  of  State  and  other  State  officials  to  furnish 
such  libraries  with  copies  of  any  and  all  reports,  laws  and  other  publications  of  the 
State  not  otherwise  disposed  of  by  law. 

Seventh:  To  borrow  books  from,  lend  books  to  and  exchange  the  same  with 
other  libraries,  and  to  allow  non-residents  to  borrow  books  upon  such  conditions  as 
they  may  prescribe. 

Eighth:  T  do  and  perform  any  and  all  other  acts  and  things  necessary  or 
proper  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this  act. 

SEC.  6.  Boards  of  Library  Trustees  shall,  on  or  before  the  last  day  of  July 
in  each  year,  make  a  report  to  the  legislative  body  of  their  municipality,  giving  the 
condition  of  the  library  on  the  thirtieth  day  of  June  preceding,  together  with  a 
statement  of  their  proceedings  for  the  year  then  ended,  and  forward  a  copy  thereof 
to  the  State  Library  at  Sacramento.  to 

SEC.  7.  The  legislative  body  of  any  municipality  in  which  a  public  library 
has  been  established  in  accordance  with  this  act,  shall  in  making  the  annual  tax 
levy,  and  as  part  thereof,  if  the  maintenance  of  the  library  has  not  been  otherwise 
provided  for,  levy  a  tax  for  the  purpose  of  maintaining  such  library  and  purchasing 
property  necessary  therefor,  which  tax  shall  be  in  addition  to  other  taxes,  the  levy 
of  which  is  permitted. in  the  municipality;  provided,  that  after  two  years  from  the 
passage  of  this  act  as  to  existing  libraries  and  after  two  years  from  the  establish- 
ment of  new'  libraries  thereunder,  where  a  maintenance  corresponding  thereto  has 
not  been  otherwise  provided,  in  municipalities  of  the  first,  second  and  third  classes, 
such  tax  levy  shall  not  exceed  one  mill  on  the  dollar  of  assessed  valuation  and  in 
municipalities  of  the  fourth,  fifth  and  sixth  classes  such  levy  shall  not  exceed  two 
mills  on  the  dollar  of  assessed  valuation. 

SEC.  8.  The  revenue  derived  from  said  tax,  together  with  all  money  ac- 
quired by  gift,  devise,  bequest,  or  otherwise,  for  the  purposes  of  the  library,  shall 
be  apportioned  to  a  fund,  to  be  designated  the  library  fund,  and  be  applied  to  tne 
purposes  herein  authorized.  If  such  payment  into  the  treasury  should  be  incon- 
sistent with  the  conditions  or  terms  of  any  such  gift,  devise,  bequest,  the  board 
shall  provide  for  the  safety  and  preservation  of  the  same,  and  the  application  there- 
of to  the  use  of  the  library,  in  accordance  with  the  terms  and  conditions  of  such 
gift,  devise  or  bequest.  Payments  from  said  fund  shall  be  made  in  the  manner  pro- 
vided for  the  payment  of  other  demands  against  the  municipality;  provided,  that 
demands  upon  said  fund  shall  be  presented  to  the  Board  of  Library  Trustees  for 
allowance  rather  than  to  the  legislative  or  other  body  of  the  municipality. 

SEC.  9.  Every  library  established  under  this  act  shall  be  forever  free  to  the 
inhabitants  and  non-resident  taxpayers  of  the  municipality,  subject  always  to  such 
rules,  regulations  and  by-laws  as  may  be  made  by  Wards  of  library  trustees;  and 
provided,  that  for  violations  of  the  same  a  person  may  be  fined  or  excluded  from 
the  privileges  of  the  library. 


6o  APPENDIX 


SEC.  10.  Boards  of  library  trustees  and  the  legislative  bodies  of  neighboring 
municipalities  of  Boards  of  Supervisors  of  the  counties  in  which  public  libraries  are 
situated,  may  contract  for  lending  the  books  of  such  libraries  to  residents  of  such 
counties  or  neighboring  municipalities,  upon  a  reasonable  compensation  to  be  paid 
by  such  counties  or  neighboring  municipalities. 

SEC.  11.  The  title  to  all  property  acquired  for  the  purposes  of  such  libraries, 
when  not  inconsistent  with  the  terms  of  its  acquisition,  or  otherwise  designated, 
shall  vest  in  the  municipalities  in  which  such  libraries  are,  or  are  to  be,  situated, 
and  in  the  name  of  the  municipal  corporations  may  be  sued  for  and  defended  by 
action  at  law  or  otherwise. 

SEC.  12.  An  act  entitled  "An  act  to  establish  free  public  libraries  and  read- 
ing rooms,"  approved  April  twenty-six,  eighteen  hundred  and  eighty,  is  hereby  re- 
pealed; provided,  that  as  to  existing  libraries  this  act  is  to  be  deemed  a  continua- 
tion "thereof,  and  such  libraries  shall  be  governed  hereby  accordingly;  provided, 
however,  that  this  act  shall  have  no  application  to  any  library  established  or  gov- 
erned by  the  provisions  of  a  city  charter,  and  the  provisions  of  any  city  charter  shall 
in  no  manner  be  affected  by  this  act. 

SEC.  13.  Any  ordinance  establishing  a  library  adopted  under  the  provisions 
of  Section  One'  of  this  act  may  be  repealed  by  the  body  which  adopted  the  same 
upon  being  requested  to  do  so  by  one-fourth  of  the  electors  of  such  municipal  cor- 
porations, in  the  manner  provided  in  Section  Two  of  this  Act,  and  upon  the  repeal 
of  s»uch  ordinance  such  library  shall  be  disestablished  in  such  municipal  corporation. 

SEC.  14.     This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately. 


BOARD  OF  HEALTH 

[POLITICAL,  CODE] 

SECTION  3061.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Council,  or 
other  corresponding  Board  of  every  incorporated  town  and  city  in  this  State,  to 
establish,  by  Ordinance,  a  Board  of  Health  for  such  town  or  city,  to  consist  of  five 
persons,  one  at  least  of  whom  shall  be  a  practicing  physician,  and  a  gradute  of 
some  reputable  school  of  medicine,  and  one,  if  practicable,  a  civil  engineer.  The 
members  of  the  Board  shall  hold  their  office  at  the  pleasure  of  the  appointing 
power.    Every  local  Board  of  Health  established  in  this  State  must: 

1.  Supervise  all  matters  pertaining  to  the  sanitary  condition  of  their  town 
or  city,  and  make  such  rules  and  regulations  relative1  thereto  as  are  necessary  and 
proper,  and  not  contrary  to  law. 

2.  Report  to  the  Secretary  of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  at  Sacramento,  at 
such  times  as  the  State  Board  of  Health  may  require; 

(a.)     The  sanitary  condition  of  their  locality: 

(b.)  The  number  of  deaths,  with  the  cause  of  each,  as  near  as  can  be  as- 
certained, within  their  jurisdiction,  during  the  preceding  month; 

(c.)  The  presence  of  epidemic  or  other  dangerous,  contagious,  or  infectious 
diseases,  and  such  other  matter,  within  their  knowledge  or  jurisdiction,  as  the  State 
Board  may  require. 

The  Trustees,  Council,  or  other  legislative  Board,  by  whatever  name  known, 
of  any  incorporated  city  or  town  of  this  State,  may,  by  ordinance,  adopt  any  portion 


APPENDIX  61 

of  Articles  III  and  IV  of  this  Chapter,  or  either  of  them,  for  some  definite  period 
of  time,  as  may  seem  proper  for  the  regulation  of  sanitary  matters  within  their 
town  or  city. 

SEC.  3063.  All  necessary  expenses  of  enforcing  this  Article  are  charges 
against  the  counties,  cities,  or  towns,  respectively,  for  the  payment  of  which  the 
county,  city,  or  town  may  levy  a  per  capita  tax  of  not  exceeding  three  dollars,  or  a 
property  tax  of  not  exceeding  one-fourth  of  one  per  cent,  yearly,  until  the  same  is 
paid. 

SEC.  3084.  No  person  shall  inter,  cremate,  or  otherwise  dispose  of  any 
human  body  in  any  city,  county,  or  city  and  county,  without  having  first  obtained 
a  permit  therefor.  In  incorporated  cities  or  counties,  or  cities  and  counties,  the 
permit  must  be  obtained  from  the  person  authorized  to  grant  the  'same  by  any  law, 
ordinance,  or  resolution  passed  for  that  purpose.  But  in  the  absence  of  such  law, 
ordinance  or  resolution,  the  permit  must  be  obtained  from  either  the  Coroner,  or 
Health  Officer,  Board  of  Health,  or  if  the  Coroner  be  absent,  then  from  the  Health 
Officer  or  Board  of  Health;  and  if  there  be  no  Board  of  Health  or  Health  Officer, 
then  from  a  Justice  of  the  Peace.  The  person  applying  for  a  permit  must  produce 
and  file  with  the  officer  issuing  the  permit  a  certificate,  signed  by  a  physician,  or  a 
Coroner,  or  two  reputable  citizens,  setting  forth,  as  near  as  possible,  the  name,  age, 
color,  place  of  birth,  occupation,  date  locality  and  cause  of  death  of  deceased.  And 
no  permit  shall  be  granted  without  the  production  of  such  certificate.  Such  permit 
must  be  filed  with  the  County  Recorder  and  the  person  so  filing  is  entitled  to  the 
compensation  provided  for  in  Section  3077  of  this  Code;  but  if  any  other  registra- 
tion of  the  death  of  the  deceased  shall  have  been  made,  the  Recorder  must  record 
the  death  but  once.     (Amended,  Stat.  1889,  page  36.) 


INDEX. 


References  are  to  number  of  ordinance  and  page. 

Ordi- 
nance Page 

ALLEYS  (See  Streets  and  Alleys.) 

Discharging  firearms,  explosives,  etc.,  on,  prohibited 57  27 

Rubbish,  garbage,  etc.,  ,on,  a  misdemeanor   31  10 

ANIMALS 

Fast   driving    prohibited    10  2 

Keeping   of    swine,    prohibited    68  35 

Poundmaster  to  impound    48  16 

Licensing  and  keeping  of  dogs   66  34 

Prohibiting   animals   on   sidewalks 35  11 

Running  at  large,  prohibited   47  15 

Vicious  and  unruly,  on  streets  10  2 

ASSESSOR 

Assessment    roll,    delivered   when    88  51 

Collection   of   poll   taxes    87  49 

Duties    of    88  51 

Poll  tax  roll,  delivered  to  Clerk  when 87  50 

AWNINGS 

Regulating   over    sidewalks    68  35 

BICYCLES  • 

Riding  on  sidewalks  in   town  prohibited    35  11 

BIRTHS 

Record   of   to   be   kept 17  7 

BOARD  OF  EQUALIZATION 

Notice   of    Meeting,   how   given    88  51 

When    to    meet     88  51 

BOARD   OF  HEALTH,    State   law  60 

Establishing,    duties,    powers,    etc     17  4 

Power    to   restrict   contagious    diseases    20  7 

BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

Appointing   Board   of   Health    , 17  4 

Appointing  Library   Trustees 90  56 

Meet  as  Board  of  Equilization    88  52 

Ordering   removal    of   dangerous   buildings,    etc    69  36 

Permission   for   discharging   fireworks,    etc 57  27 

Permission  to  slaughter  animals   68  35 

Power   to   levy   taxes    88  52 

Powers   as  to   liquor  licenses    81  45 

Time    and    place    of    meeting    65  33 

To    provide    offices   for   town   officers    72  36 

To  give  permission  for  removal  of  buildings  80  44 


63 

29 

62 

28 

81 

46 

49 

17 

78 

40' 

80 

44 

33 

11 

68 

35 

69 

35 

69 

36 

74 

37 

64  INDEX 

BONDS,   SEWER 

Providing  for  issuance  of    

Providing  for  payment  of    

BONDS, 

Liquor   dealers    81 

Officers    

Plumbers    , 

Removal    of   buildings,    for    

Superintendent    of    Streets    

BONFIRES,  • 

Prohibited    without    permission     57  28 

BUILDINGS, 

Prohibiting   frame    smokehouses    

Regulating   stovepipes,   chimneys,    and   flues   in    

Removal    of    dangerous 

Solid  walls  in  certain  limits  74 

BURIAL  PERMIT, 

What   to    contain    17  7 

CHIEF, 

Election,     powers,     and    duties     52  18 

Annual    report     52  19 

CHIMNEYS 

Regulating  construction  of   69  36 

Removal    of    dangerous    69  36 

CLERK,    TOWN, 

Blank  licenses,   to   have   printed    56  21 

Blank  licenses,   to   sign    56  21 

Duties    as    Assessor 88  51 

Bond,    amount    of    49  17 

Notice  of  meeting  of  Board   of  Equalization    88  51 

Ordinances,   copying  and  proof  of  publishing    27  9 

Salary    of    82  48 

DEAD   BODY,   Burial   permit   for    17  7 

DEMANDS  against  the  Town 

How   presented   and  considered    54  20 

DOGS,    Impounding     66  34 

License   tags   on    66  34 

Rate  of  license  on   66  34 

DRUNKENNESS     (See    Misdemeanor) 

ELECTION, 

Compensation  of  Election   Board    15  4 

Of  town   officers,  how  conducted    15 

FAST    DRIVING    OR    RIDING,    a   misdemeanor    10  2 

FIREARMS,   discharge  of,   when  unlawful    57  27 

FIRE  DEPARTMENT 

Establishing    and    concerning     52  18 

Election    of   officers,    how    52  18 

FLUES,  how  constructed    69  36 

FRANCHISES 

Humboldt    Telephone    Company,    to    44  13 

Sunset  Telephone  and   Telegraph   Company,   to    45  14 


INDEX  65 

» 

Permitting-  Grace  Francis   to  lay   pipes    79  43 

GARBAGE 

Placing   in    streams,    etc.,    unlawful 86  48 

Keeping-  streets  free  from   81  9 

HEALTH    OFFICER,    Burial    Permit    17  7 

Duties    of    17  5 

Physicians    to    report    to     17  5 

Qualifications    of     17  ,4 

Sexton   must   report  burials   to    17  7 

IMPOUNDING  ANIMALS    (See   Animals) 

JAIL,  COUNTY,  providing  for  use  of  40  12 

LIBRARY,   PUBLIC,   State  law    58 

Establishing    Town    Library    90  56 

LIBRARY    TRUSTEES,    How   appointed    90  56 

Duties   and   reports    90  57 

LIQUOR  LICENSE  (See  LICENSE,  LIQUOR) 

LICENSES,   BUSINESS    56  21 

Conditions    for    issuance     56  21 

Rates  .of,  on  lines  of  business   56  22 

To  be  posted   in   conspicuous  place    .  .  ■> 56  21 

LICENSE,  DOGS  (See  DOGS) 

LICENSE,  LIQUOR 

Application   for    81  46 

How   secured    81  46 

Rates  of  license 81  47 

Wholesale   dealer's    56  26 

MAP,   SEWER   Adopting    38  12 

MARSHAL 

Bond   of    49  17 

Duties  as  tax  collector    88  52 

Election    of 15  3 

May  be  appointed  as  Supt.  of  Streets  and  Poundmaster 46  15 

Power   to   remove    obstructions    in    streets,    etc    75  38 

Office  for    72  36 

Salary  of    82  48 

Supervision   over  excavation   in   streets    10  2 

To  collect  business  licenses   56  21 

To  collect  dog  licenses    66  34 

To   collect   liquor   license    81  47 

To  collect  poll  taxes   87  49 

To   enforce   order    57  28 

MEETING,  REGULAR,  of  Board  of  Trustees   65  33 

MISDEMEANORS, 

Airguns,    firearms,    etc,    prohibited    57  28 

Animals,  driving  on  sidewalk   35  11 

Animals,   running  at   large,    prohibited    47  15 

Awning,  projection  over  sidewalk 68  35 

Boxing,  ball-playing  on  streets,  etc 10  1 

Chimneys,    flues,    dangerous     buildings,    etc 69  35 

Conducting  business   without   license    56  21 

Children    under    16    on    streets    at    night 10  2 


66  INDEX 

Disorderliness 57  28 

Drunkenness    10  1 

Excavation   in    streets    10  2 

Fast  driving  on  streets   10  2 

Females   in  saloons    10  1 

Gambler,  drunkard,  ets 10  2 

Killing  animals  without  permission    68  35 

Minors   in   saloons    10  2 

Obstructing  sidewalks    10  2 

Persons    obstructing   streets    31  10 

Regulating   poles,   wires,    etc 73  37 

Removal  of  buildings  except  as  provided    80  44 

Removing  sidewalks,  crossings,  etc 10  2 

Riding   bicycles    on    sidewalks 35  11 

Rubbish,    garbage,    ets.,    on    streets,    etc 31  10 

Sale  of  milk  and  inspection  of  dairies    77  39 

Sale   of   liquors,    except   as   provided    81  45 

Smokehouses,  frame,  in  town   68  35 

Solid  walls  in  buildings   .74  37 

Swine,   keeping  of   prohibited. 68  35 

Trees    obstructing    sidewalks    10  2 

Vicious   and   unruly   animals   on   streets    10  2 

Violation  of  health  regulations   17,  20  5 

Violation   of  plumbing  regulations    78  43 

MINORS,   On  streets   10  2 

In    saloons    10  2 

NIGHTWATCHMAN,  Providing  for  duties  of   8  1 

NUISANCES,  Abatement  of  by  health  officer    17  6 

ORDINANCES,  How  passed  and  adopted   27  9 

Repealing  certain   ordinances    91  57 

PENALTIES  (See  MISDEMEANORS) 

PIPES  in  streets 

Excavations   for    10  '    2 

Franchise  to  Grace  Francis   79  43 

PLUMBING  AND  DRAINAGE,  Regulations  governing   78  40 

POLL  TAX  (See  TAXES) 

POLES 

Permission    to    Humboldt   Telephone    Company    44  13 

Permission  to  Sunset  Telephone  and  Telegraph  Company   ...  45  14 

Regulating   erection    73  37 

POUNDMASTER,  Duties  of   48  16 

Impounding  animals    48  16 

Impounding  dogs    66  34 

RECORDER    Duties    and    compensation    11  3 

SALARIES,   Clerks    82  48 

Marshal's    82  48 

Superintendent   of   Streets    82  48 

Poundmaster    82  48 

Sewer  Inspector    82  48 

SEWER  SYSTEM 

Adopting   sewer    maps    38  12 


INDEX  67 

Providing  for  issuance  of  bonds    63  29 

Providing  for  payment  of  bonds   62  28 

Regulations    governing    sewers     78  41 

SIDEWALKS,  Bicycles  riding  on 35  11 

Limits  of  on  Main  street    53  20 

Manner  of  construction    26  8 

Obstructing   prohibited 10  2 

Rubbish,  garbage,   etc.,   on    31  10 

Tearing  up  and  removing   10  2 

STOVEPIPES  AND  FLUES 

Prohibited  where    69  35 

Rules  governing  construction    69  3o 

STREETS  AND  ALLEYS, 

Accepting   dedicated    streets    39  12 

Accepting  and  naming  certain  streets 51  17 

Conditions  governing  acceptance  of   67  34 

Congregating   on    10  2 

Erection  of  poles  on    73  37 

Excavations   in    10  2 

Fast  driving  on   10  2 

Permitting    Grace    Francis    to    lay    pipes    in    79  43 

Removal   of  building  over    80  44 

Removal   of   obstructions   on    75  38 

Rubbish,   garbage,   etc.,   on    31  10 

Vicious    and    unruly    animals    on    10  2 

SUPERINTENDENT  OF  STREETS,  Providing  for    33  11 

Marshal  may  be  appointed  46  15 

Salary   of    82  42 

SWINE,   Keeping  of  prohibited    68  35 

TAXES,  Mode  of  assessment,   levy,  and  collection    88  50 

Poll    taxes    87  49 

TELEGRAPH  AND  TELEPHONE  POLES    73  37 

(See  also  FRANCHISES) 

TREASURER,   bond,   amount  of    49  17 

WATER  RATES 

Power    to    regulate     79  43 


ORDINANCE  NO.    94. 

Amending  sections  9,  11  and  28  of 
Ordinance  No.  56  of  the  Town  of  Fern- 
dale,  regulating  Licenses. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Town 
of  Ferndale  do  ordain  as  follows: 

Sec.  1.— Sections  9,  11  and  28  of 
Ordinance  No  56  of  the  Town  of 
Ferndale  are  hereby  amended  to  read 
as  follows: 

Sec.  9. — Every  person,  firm  or  cor- 
poration carrying  on  the  business  of  a 
meat  market  in  said  town,  or  selling 
meat  therein,  either  by  peddling  or 
otherwise,  shall  pay  a  license  tax  of 
$3.00  per  quarter. 

Sec.  11. — Every  preson,  firm,  asso- 
ciation or  corporation,  not  having  a 
fixed  place  of  business  in  the  Town  of 
Ferndale,  who  peddles,  or  from  place 
to  place,  within  said  town,  offers  for 
sale,  or  does  sell,  barter  or  exchange 
anything,  or  any  goods,  wares  or  mer- 
chandise, then  in  his  possession  (ex- 
cept newspapers,  periodicals,  ice, 
milk,  fruit  or  vegetables)  shall  pay  a 
license  tax  of  $2.00  per  day,  or  $10  per 
week.  This  section  shall  also  apply 
to  any  preson  not  having  a  fixed 
place  of  business  in  said  town,  who 
shall  solicit  or  take  orders  for  the 
exchange,  sale,  barter  or  delivery  of 
the  same  class  of  goods  as  above  en- 
umerated, not  then  in  his  actual  pos- 
session; and  he  shall  pay  the  same 
rate  of  license  as  above.  Provided, 
however,  that  this  section  shall  not 
apply  to  salesmen  or  agents  for  whole- 
sale houses  or  firms  who  solicit  orders 
from,  cr  sell  for  resale  to  retail  deal- 
ers or  to  manufacturers  for  manu- 
facturing  purposes. 

Sec.  28. — Every  person  or  firm  en- 
gaged in  conducting  a  barber  shop 
shall  pay  a  license  tax  as  follows: 
For  one  barber  chair  used,  $2  per 
quarter;  for  each  additional  chair 
used,  $1. 

Sec.  2. — This  ordinance  shall  take 
effcet  immediately. 

Passed  and  adopted  March  5th, 
1906,  by  the  following  vote:  Ayes, 
A.  Putnam,  H.  C.  Blum  and  C.  A. 
Doe ;  Noes,  None.  Absent,  G.  M. 
Brice-and  L.  P.  Branstetter. 

CHAS.  A.  DOE, 
President  of  the  Board  of    Trustees 
of  the  Town  of  Ferndale. 

G.  W.  Dungan, 

Town  Clerk. 


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